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RELEASED: When the police requested that Tom Hagen, who was charged with murder, be taken into custody in late April, telephone evidence was part of the basis for obtaining a court ruling. The garden was launched later. Photo: Gisle Oddstad
Police have long accused Tom Hagen of erasing two phone calls to Anne-Elisabeth Hagen on the day of her disappearance. The accusations were wrong.
This is confirmed by Police Inspector Agnes Beate Hemiø in the Eastern VG Police District.
During the more than two-year investigation, the police have worked hard on a timetable that will help them solve the murder case.
This timeline contains a series of electronic evidence, including phone conversations and text messages.
According to Tom Hagen, he and his wife had a vague plan to go to Kvitfjell on the day of the disappearance, and that the two should agree over the phone.
– I had promised Lisbeth that I would call her at 10, because we had talked about it the day before and we did it that morning, that we should go to Kvitfjell. And then he didn’t answer the phone, Hagen said recently in an interview with NRK.
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Filed in court
The telephone transcripts of Anne-Elisabeth Hagen’s mobile phone show that Tom Hagen, among other things, called her at 10:06 and 10:07, from an older Nokia mobile phone.
However, the police have not found these calls on the Nokia phone of the billionaire accused of murder. Therefore, the police have claimed that they have deleted the calls to hide clues.
On the morning of April 28 this year, Tom Hagen was arrested and charged with murder or complicity in murder. He denies criminal guilt and says he has nothing to do with his wife’s disappearance.
When the police presented him for custody in the Nedre Romerike District Court, the telephone certificate was part of the basis for obtaining the court’s support for custody. The district court then ruled that there were good reasons to suspect Hagen and decided to put him in jail.
However, the decision was appealed by Hagen’s defender, attorney Svein Holden.
LEADER: Police Inspector Agnes Beate Hemiø in the Eastern Police District. Photo: NTB
Police: nothing changes
At the Eidsivating Court of Appeal, the police still used the telephone certificate as part of their basis for obtaining custody, but the Court of Appeal thought the basis of suspicion was too weak and released Hagen.
However, the Court of Appeals emphasized investigations that showed Tom Hagen may have deleted two calls on his old Nokia phone. Now it turns out that the older mobile phone automatically deletes the calls and that the police charges against Hagen are incorrect.
– It is true that in relation to the custody request of April 2020, it was pointed out as a suspect that two calls that appeared in the defendant’s traffic data did not appear in the phone’s call log. This was part of an overall assessment where the information was also compared with other information in the case, says the police inspector.
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He further claims that the police, as a result of a request from the defense attorney, have carried out further investigations into the call records.
– The results of technical investigations show that the defendants have not deleted the calls, says Hemiø.
The police inspector further claims that the telephone evidence was not presented to the Nedre Romerike District Court in connection with the inquiry request in June 2020.
– The district court concluded that there are good reasons to be suspicious and, in the opinion of the police, this information does not change anything with respect to the current basis of suspicion, says Hemiø.
DEFENDANT: Attorney Svein Holden. Photo: Frode Hansen
– The murder charge is weaker
Hagen’s defender, attorney Svein Holden, believes there is no question that the murder charge against the billionaire is weaker today than it was this spring.
The defense attorney notes, among other things, that the police recently discovered that the telephone evidence, which they used before the Nedre Romerike District Court and the Eidsivating Court of Appeal in connection with Tom Hagen’s custody application, is not correct .
– We are happy that it has now come to light that it was a false accusation against Tom Hagen. At the same time, it is regrettable that the police have spent a disproportionately long time to determine this, Holden writes to VG.
The defense attorney believes that the police have not proven that a murder occurred.
– On the contrary, kidnapping appears to be at least as likely. There is no evidence of any connection between Tom Hagen and the necessary accomplices in the alleged police murder, Holden writes.
