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At 5:44 p.m. on February 11 last year, Laila Bertheussen (55) got out of her car from her home in Vækerøveien to run a series of errands in the local community. An hour later, she turned back down the driveway, but now with a twenty-foot long cloth strap tied to the car, with bottles of Isklar containing gasoline.
The prosecution believes that Bertheussen himself secured the strip of cloth at a location along the route. They base this, among other things, on video from surveillance cameras, as well as data from the defendant’s own Health app, which records the movement.
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– Unusually long time
Prosecutor Frederik Ranke notes that the defendant spent an unusually long time on the journey from the Smestad recycling station to the 7-Eleven in Ullernveien; PST assumes that the trip took 21 minutes, whereas according to Google Maps it will only take between 6 and 8 minutes. In addition, Helse has logged 15 steps between 18.26 and 18.36, in the period when she was on her way between the places.
– You have to be quite slow to walk 15 steps during the period, notes PST ette researcher Snorre Mortensen during his detailed court presentation.
Bertheussen denies having made the estimate, like the rest of the charges. In court, the 55-year-old woman said she sat outside the kiosk for a while because she was to have surgery the next day.
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– I’m sitting there, quite unkempt, she said.
– In our opinion, there is an excellent correspondence between what Mortensen describes and what Bertheussen explained in his free explanation, 55-year-old defender Bernt Heiberg tells Dagbladet.
Did she stop?
– It will be a question if he had a stop before the 7-Eleven, and if he had a stop since he drove from the 7-Eleven and was on his way home to Vækerøveien, Ranke tells Dagbladet.
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Surveillance videos rule out that something was hanging under or behind the car when Bertheussen exited the Smestad recycling station. However, they do not provide an answer as to whether the cloth strip was in place when the 55-year-old parked outside the 7-Eleven to buy gum.
“We’ll ask you if you got the bottles out while you were parked at 7-Eleven and were driving home, or if you did anything at Lysejordet school,” Ranke says.
According to Google, the trip from 7-Eleven to home takes 4 minutes. But PST assumes 8 minutes passed.
– The dagger in the back
– Bertheussen has explained that by old custom it became the Lysejordet school. With this deviation in the calculation, the time indication is correct, says defender Heiberg.
– did not stop
In a further explanation, Bertheussen added that on his way home from the kiosk, out of habit, he accidentally passed Lysejordet school, where his youngest daughter was in her time. He also explained that he did not stop there.
The health app has registered a movement that begins just over a minute before she returns home.
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– They will also ask you about this, says Ranke.
It adds that the police have not received any indications of objects hanging behind the car as it headed north on Vækerøveien, a busy road.
– Thrown carpet
Bertheussen said in a further explanation that he threw a woolen blanket at one place on the trip.
– It was behind the car and it smelled long after the garbage had been there, the 55-year-old explained in court.
He also said that documentation was sent to the parties, but neither the defense nor the prosecution recall having received something like this.
It was also revealed that some time after the incident, the police found traces of gasoline on the ground and in the snow next to the family’s barbecue terrace. In court, Bertheussen explained that this was related to a chainsaw he used several years ago.
– We have registered that the family does not have gasoline objects at home, says Ranke.
The prosecutor highlights the constant additional explanations provided by the accused.
– This at the same time he says elsewhere that he remembers badly, says Frederik Ranke.
