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This is what defender Lukasz Niedzielski tells NRK.
Defend the 32-year-old who has now been sentenced to two years and six months in prison for the theft of Petter Slengesol. For the robbery of the millionaire and art dealer Reidar Osen, he was acquitted by the Bergen District Court.
The 37-year-old co-defendant has been sentenced on both charges to five years and four months in prison.
Both are ordered to pay reparations and compensation to both Petter Slengesol and Reidar Osen.
– Now we must thoroughly review the verdict and consider any appeal. I just got it, says his defender Kim Villanger.
At nine-month intervals, Osen and Slengesol were brutally attacked in Bergen in 2015.
The investigation has been long and mixed, but after five years the case could go to court.
SENTENCING: The judges, led by District Court Judge Stein Dons Heinfjell, have convicted one man of both robberies, while the other has been acquitted of the Osen robbery.
Photo: Bjørnar Morønning / Pool / NTB
Different versions
Both defendants admit to being involved in the Petter Slengesol robbery, but both describe their own role as a driver.
Three completely different versions of Reidar Osen’s kidnapping emerged in court. One of the defendants, the 37-year-old man, admitted to being involved in the kidnapping, but claimed that Osen himself was behind it all. Connect the DNA evidence to the site. Osen’s motive was to attack the Romanian enemies that Osen should have.
In the ruling, the court writes that they safely ignore the fact that Osen himself should have pointed this out and notes, among other things, that there was no connection between Osen and the accused.
“It would be quite foolish to settle on a fictitious blackmail with a virtually unknown person,” the court writes.
The 32-year-old co-defendant, on the other hand, claims his innocence in the Osen case. In his case, there is no DNA evidence.
Reidar Osen, for his part, believes that it was the two Poles who assaulted him in his car in the center of Bergen and kidnapped him. Osen is said to have been beaten, threatened with death and shown a grave where he would be put if he did not pay them 2 million kronor.
SLENGESOL: Petter Slengesol was brutally assaulted at the beginning of the year in 2015.
Photo: Bjørnar Morønning / Pool / NTB
New DNA evidence
The verdict was originally expected to fall between December 4-8. But on December 3, things took a new turn.
Police had obtained new DNA evidence in the case, linking the 32-year-old man’s brother to the pants Osen was wearing when he was abducted.
The DNA evidence emerged using a new analysis method. Although the trial was over, it was resumed.
