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A Bergen man (36) has been sentenced to nine years in prison for a murder in Latvia last year.
At the Gulating Court of Appeal, the Bergen man received a four-year sentence reduction. Photo: Marit Hommedal / NTB
In Stavanger District Court, the man was found guilty but appealed the 13-year prison sentence.
The appeal concerned the question of guilt, but with the duration of the sentence as subsidiary.
During the appeal case, his lawyer, lawyer John Christian Elden, advocated for a shorter sentence because the level of punishment in Latvia is lower than in Norway.
The court agreed, reports TV 2.
On Good Friday last year, the man appeared before the Oslo police. Photo: Lise Åserud / NTB
Released and straight on the plane
The Norwegian was released from Norwegian prison in early April last year, having served a sentence for, among other things, violence and profit.
The same day he went to Oslo and the next day he boarded a plane to Riga. “The plan was to travel through Europe”, it is affirmed in the judgment of the Court of Appeal.
Surveillance video shows that he came into contact with a Latvian in his 40s whom he brought home. During the time the two were in the apartment, the Latvian was stabbed 18 times with a knife.
Five days later, the Norwegian met the guard at the Greenland police station in Oslo and explained that he had killed a man with a knife.
Confirmed homicide
The Norwegian police contacted their Latvian colleagues. They confirmed that they were investigating the murder of an unknown perpetrator. The Norwegian was arrested and charged with premeditated murder.
The Gulating Court of Appeal ruling states that the man now has an address in Bergen. Defender Elden confirms the same to BT.
“He is happy that the Court of Appeal has reduced the sentence by four years, but believes that he acted in self-defense and therefore should not be punished,” the lawyer writes in a text message to BT.
Elden further writes in the message that they have taken time to think and will consider the verdict in more detail.
