Your worst day yet

Surprisingly bad memory and the modified explanation gives reason to wonder how many coincidences can be found in the case against Laila Anita Bertheussen. A missing printer and a stamp booklet are among the strongest police evidence.

The fourth time the defendant took the witness stand in room 250 was the most difficult for her yet. The threat letter sent to Wara and Bertheussen’s home on January 29 of last year and the threat letter to the Tybring-Gjedde couple on February 5 are important for two reasons. The technical clues associated with them are the hardest for Bertheussen to explain so far.

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first Christian and Ingvil Smine’s letter to Tybring-Gjedde was a turning point in the police investigation. Until then, two key theories about who could be behind the threats and attacks on the house of the Minister of Justice were that there were some linked to the theater group who performed “Ways of seeing” or who were inspired by the play. The letter made this much less likely than before.

No one could tell where the couple lived after watching “Ways of Seeing.” The play showed a video of a completely different house, while the threatening letter was sent to the place where they live. Since Tybring-Gjedde has a hidden address, the sender could not find it in the phone book. The new theory of the police was, therefore, that the person in question had access to the National Registry or knew the couple personally.

Secondly Is this letter something that makes the accusation so serious? If the police are right, Bertheussen has faked a series of physical attacks and threats against his own family and their shared home. Given that the partner was Minister of Justice, that in itself is enough to be prosecuted under serious article 115 of the Penal Code, which deals with attacks on the activities of the highest state bodies. The case becomes even more serious when the threats are also applied to other people besides the house itself, and these others are ministers and parliamentary representatives.

Lie down in open cut

Tybring-Gjedde from Christian and Ingvil Smine will be explained on Wednesday, but we already know that they were scared and reacted strongly to the threatening letter. The latter was a newly appointed minister at this time, so it was natural for her to be threatened. She is also the only one of the two who has sought compensation in the case, but only in the form of a symbolic sum of 5,000 crowns that she wants to donate.

Bertheussen denies criminal guilt and any dealings with the cards. Separately, none of the technical evidence is sufficient to establish that she is behind. But they are strong clues.

The paper used for the threatening letters is like the paper seized at Wara and Bertheussen’s home. The stamps are probably the four missing stamps in a stamp booklet in the defendant’s drawer. Those used on the envelopes not only have the same motif, but also corresponding registration deviations and cuts as the seals on the seized booklet. Bertheussen has no comment on this, other than the stamp motif should be very common.

Bertheussen’s biggest problem

Prayers and letters The two threatening letters are drawn from an interview in Morgenbladet with the “Ways to See” actor Hanan Benammar. In Bertheussen’s house, paper newspapers and a transcript of this interview have been found. But neither of the two printers connected to the defendant’s computer when she was apprehended matches the printing used on the letters. So far, Bertheussen has maintained that he has had no more printers available than the police have access to.

The prosecution’s evidence shows how terrifying the fingerprints we all leave behind. Bertheussen searched the internet for a “cheap printer” on January 24, 2019, and found an HP Envy for sale. That printer was sold for cash at Sandvika Storsenter later that day, just before Bertheussen used his credit card at Meny in the same mall.

Five days later, Bertheussen’s computer log shows that he connected an HP Envy to his computer for the first time. I looked for the street where Tybring-Gjedde lives. That she bought tickets to the show to which the threatening letter refers. She opened the Morgenbladet article with the interview. Printed documents. And removed the connection to the printer. A surveillance camera installed in front of the home after the previous attacks shows Bertheussen removing cardboard from the car, which the prosecution believes is the packaging of an HP Envy.

I fight like a lion

Bertheussen does not remember If you have bought the printer, you have connected it to your own machine, what you have searched for, what you may have printed or what you have thrown away. He also does not recall being at Sandvika Storsenter that day. Because the health app data on his phone does not show that he moved from one floor to another, the defense believes that he could not have passed from Clas Ohlson to Meny at that time. Previous evidence has indicated that if Bertheussen took the escalator or elevator, it would not appear in the app. But there is no final image or proof that she bought the printer herself.

Bertheussen claims that he is the victim of a series of unfortunate coincidences. You may be telling the truth. But there are suspiciously many coincidences.