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The Borgarting Court of Appeal will release Danish Kim Poulsen from custody. He was found guilty of the murder of Gunn Merete Lode in Bryne in 2001.
– He’s very happy, says Poulsen’s defender, attorney Harald Grape.
Kim Poulsen, 57, was deported from Norway in 2008 from the day he was released.
The condition for parole is that Poulsen leaves Norway and does not return.
Poulsen has been serving a sentence in Ila Prison since 2005.
In 2005, Kim Poulsen was sentenced to 18 years in prison for killing Gunn Merete Lode, 32, in Bryne in 2001, as well as for the assault and rape of two women in Denmark.
The prison sentence was handed down with a minimum term of ten years by the Gulating Court of Appeal.
DNA field
Lode’s murder was unsolved for a long time, but the Danish man’s DNA was eventually linked to the murder. Poulsen has never acknowledged the murder. She has said that she was in contact with Gunn Merete Lode, but denies that he was the one who killed her.
SCENE: Here at Herikstadvegen in Bryne, Gunn Merete Lode was found dead. Photo: Alf Ove Hansen, NTB.
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The woman was alone on her way home one night in August 2001 when she was captured, threatened and killed with a knife for no reason.
The minimum term for the sentence expired in August 2013, while the term for the arrest sentence is estimated at August 10 of next year.
First no
Kim Poulsen has applied for release from custody three times. The last time was in 2019, and on April 1 of this year, the Asker and Bærum District Court handed down a judgment rejecting the petition. However, Poulsen appealed, and now Borgarting has come to the conclusion that the killer should be released. The probationary period after release is set at the longest period of detention.
Lawyer Harald Grepe believes the verdict is correct and notes that the two experts, psychiatrists Kjersti Anne Lyngstad and Randi Rosenqvist, believe that the risk of releasing Poulsen is acceptable.
Among other things, the two have come to the conclusion that there is no longer any basis to believe that Poulsen suffers from a dyssocial personality disorder, as the experts believed in 2005.
– Lying so that he believes it himself
However, Rosenqvist said in court that he believes it is problematic that Poulsen has yet to admit to having committed the crimes for which he has been convicted. She ignored the possibility that he could not have carried out the actions, and believes that it is most likely that he has paraphrased the facts of which he himself was convinced: that he “lies to believe it himself.”
– Poulsen will come home to the family in Denmark, where he has a mother and a sister. She will also resume contact with her children and have a normal life, Grape says.
Sentenced to custody for the murder of Lode
The judgment of the Court of Appeal states that Danish social authorities will follow up with Poulsen for the first time after his return.
State prosecutor Oddbjørn Søreide, who was the prosecutor in the case, tells Stavanger Aftenblad that he is considering appealing the verdict.
– The core of the case is an evidentiary evaluation of the issue of risk of recurrence. In principle, there is no opportunity to appeal this to the Supreme Court, says Søreide.
In court, Søreide ruled that there is a danger that the case will be repeated.
(NTB).
