Supreme Court says no to delivery of tissue samples in Vanvikan case – NRK Trøndelag – Local news, TV and radio

The Supreme Court ruling is ready after the case recently went to court.

The samples were taken in connection with a research project at NTNU and show that the child had formic acid in his eye fluid.

Only six years later, after the case was resumed, the police discovered that a test had been conducted.

The prosecution wanted to know the results to find out if formic acid could be the cause of the minor’s death.

NTNU, for its part, did not want to give it to the prosecution, since the samples were taken in a research project.

Good reasons not to deliver

The Supreme Court writes in its ruling that there are good reasons for releasing the material, but that a release will weaken confidence in medical and health research.

The case has previously been tried in both the Sør-Trøndelag District Court and the Frostating Court of Appeal, where NTNU has been confirmed in both courts.

The father of the deceased child is charged with bodily injury resulting in death. The mother, who was also charged in 2013, is dead.

State prosecutor Bjørn Kristian Sokns had previously thought that the formic acid results could be important in finding out what the child died of.

– The tissue sample will possibly give us a better basis to say something about the amount and in that case if the amount is so large that it may be what caused the death, Soknes told NRK in June.

John Christian Elden is NTNU’s attorney on the case, and has previously said that this is a case about possible bodily injury, not murder.

– However, the legislation is absolute and the Storting, among other things, has decided in the form of law that it is forbidden to deliver such material to the police or the courts as part of the investigation of criminal cases, said Elden.