Man accused of murder in Moss acknowledges the actual circumstances

The man in his 50s has been jailed after he was charged on Thursday with trying to kill a 12-year-old boy on his way to school.

Friday 26 April at 15:41

The man was remanded in custody for four weeks with a letter and visiting ban. The prison meeting took place as office businessOffice proceedings mean that the court alone decides the issue of imprisonment based on the case’s documents, without the accused or defense counsel present. in Søndre Østfold district court.

The accused man has consented to imprisonment and will explain himself in questioning during the day, says the man’s defender, Vetle André Mitchell Jensen, to VG.

– He acknowledges the actual conditionsIt often happens that an accused or defendant acknowledges the facts or the criminal acts, but refuses to plead guilty. The reason may be that the perpetrator does not remember anything or invokes grounds of impunity, e.g. emergency or insanity.. As regards the issue of criminal liability, the accused has not concretely taken a position on this, says Jensen

The accused man was produced before a doctor on Thursday.

The boy was attacked with a knife and stone and suffered injuries in several places on his body, according to the police. He is hospitalized, but not critically injured.

The family’s legal aid lawyer Tone Monclair tells VG that the 12-year-old is doing well in the circumstances.

The accused man was produced before a doctor on Thursday.

It was on Thursday at 8.30 that the police received a report that a boy had been attacked with a knife on his way to Verket school in Moss.

– We are planning to conduct an organized questioning of the boy when this is possible, says police attorney Sigrid Fagerli to VG.

The man was arrested soon after the police received information about the incident. According to the police, there is no relationship between the boy and the accused man.

– It appears as a single incident that is random. There is no reason why parents and children in Moss should feel unsafe after this incident, police station chief Henning Dalbye told VG on Thursday.

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