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When the police in June asked the Nedre Romerike District Court for permission to search the Hagen couple’s cabins at Kvitfjell and Biri, they had to justify why they thought there was good reason to suspect Hagen of murder or complicity in the murder.
With just over a month in advance, the Eidsivating Court of Appeal reached the opposite conclusion and thus released Hagen from custody.
Police theory: Hagen was waiting for an unknown car
However, the police were able to present new evidence, which together with the evidence previously presented was sufficient to make the district court again believe that there was an absolute probability that Hagen was behind the murder of his wife.
Witness: he was threatened with death
On Sunday, NRK wrote that Tom Hagen is charged with illegal possession of firearms.
Now TV 2 can say that the same weapons, four pistols and a sharp shotgun, are among the police evidence also in the murder case against Hagen.
The Hagen children: total chaos reigned between the police and the family
The background is, among other things, a witness who tells the police that Hagen threatened to kill him in 1994. According to the witness, Hagen himself told him that he had a loaded pistol with him when he threatened the witness.
Furthermore, according to the witness, Hagen said he knew people who could have him killed, without being caught for it.
The witness denounced Hagen for threats shortly after the incident, and the police believe his report at the time, which was withdrawn, agrees well with the explanation he now gives to the police. He is considered an important witness in the investigation.
RULING: Police dug holes in the ground when they searched the Hagen couple’s cabin in Biriåsen in June. Photo: Frode Sunde / TV 2
Police believed in June that this information, viewed in connection with other evidence in the case, indicates that Hagen has a low threshold for acting violently and threateningly in pressure situations.
Will not be questioned
Tom Hagen’s defender, attorney Svein Holden, confirms that his client in December 1994 was sued for threatening a man.
– The background to Hagen’s contact with the man was the relationship he had with a member of Tom Hagen’s family. The case was dropped by police shortly thereafter, Holden writes in an email, adding:
– From my point of view, I want to emphasize that it is understandable that Tom Hagen has a conflictive relationship with the man. In my opinion, this situational conflict of more than 25 years ago is not relevant to the kidnapping of Anne-Elisabeth Hagen.
Holden believes, as he knows the evidence in the case, that there is no basis for bringing a charge against Tom Hagen.
In an email to TV 2, Police Inspector Agnes Beate Hemiø writes that the police will not comment on the case.
Tom Hagen has always denied criminal guilt for which he is charged. He believes that his wife has been abducted by unknown perpetrators and that the police have been completely misled for a long time.
Promised reward
That’s why Hagen promised a reward of NOK 10 million this summer for tips that will lead to finding his wife.
Hagen also believes that the kidnappers have been spying on him and his wife before and after the disappearance on October 31, 2018. That is why he has kept a sharp shotgun by his bed, he has written to the police through his defender Svein Holden.
He has had all four pistols unregistered due to his many years of interest in guns, he explains. Three of them are also not functional.
Police met with British expert: will re-investigate threatening letter
The billionaire gave a brief explanation to the police when he was arrested on April 28 of this year. Eleven days later, he was released because the police evidence was not good enough. Since then, he has refused to explain to the police.
Hagen: – It’s heavy
The charge of illegal possession of a firearm was dropped in August this year and handed over to Hagen in October. He also declined to explain this accusation, but on Friday attorney Holden sent a statement to the police on behalf of Hagen.
On October 31 of this year, two years after the disappearance of his wife, Hagen gave an interview to NRK. There he described the arrest as “a shock”.
“An image of me as a murderer has been drawn, and it is heavy,” Hagen said in the interview.
