the case: – Scouting for something

Andersen is accused of having killed Lena Sløgedal Paulsen (10) in Baneheia on 19 May 2000. He has previously been convicted of having killed Stine Sofie Sørstrønen (8).

After Viggo Kristiansen was acquitted of the crimes in Baneheia in 2022, the murder of Sløgedal Paulsen has remained unsolved.

A man who was out walking that evening has explained that he saw Jan Helge Andersen. In court on Monday, he says that it has been many years, but talks freely about where he thinks he met Andersen.

– It didn’t seem like he was out training. I don’t think he was wearing training clothes then. He walked fast and looked a little tense, says the walker in court.

He tells the court that he did not know Andersen’s name at the time, but that he recognized his face. The walker also singled out Andersen in a photo confrontation in 2000.

– What I noticed was that when I saw him the first time, he stood and stared, just as he was spying or scouting for something in the field, explains the walker.

PS: The court was on inspectionWhen the court visits a place to gain a better understanding of the case. in Baneheia on 18 April. You can read more about that here.

It was close to the light track in Baneheia, close to the football pitch and the stretch Fant Olsen.

It was then around 5.30pm, that is before Andersen and Kristiansen met each other in Baneheia that evening.

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Later, they are placed at a playground outside Baneheia by a witness.

A few minutes later, the hiker sees Andersen again, also in the light trail.

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Andersen’s defender Svein Holden asks how long it takes to go from where the walker saw Andersen the first time to where he saw him the second time.

– I would think maybe 8-10 minutes, in normal walking, he replies.

Holden refers to the explanation of Andersen’s father that was read out last week. Then the father said that he was called at 17.47 by Viggo Kristiansen, and said that Andersen was in Baneheia training.

– In light of that, do you have any thoughts about the time you indicate?

– This is probably not at the minute, but I think it is as good as it can be done for me at all. I must again point to the police interviews, because they are probably more precise when it comes to the time aspect, replies the hiker.

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– Can you be absolutely sure?

Holden also asks the witness about the clothing of the person he saw in Baneheia.

During a questioning the man said “ordinary clothes”, in an interrogation he said he did not remember, and the third time he said it might have been shorts and a T-shirt.

– When I meant ordinary clothes, I probably meant that there was nothing special to look at in his unusual clothing, replies the hiker.

Holden says that both Andersen’s father and Kristiansen have said that he was wearing dark blue tracksuit bottoms that night.

– Can you be absolutely sure that it is Jan Helge Andersen did you see? Ask the defender.

– I am very sure of that. I may have been wrong about clothes and all that, there are other things I get attached to, says the hiker.

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The two comrades

In the evening of 19 May 2000, two friends came to visit Kristiansen. One of the two is now dead, and the court has had his interrogation read out.

The other comrade appears in court via video link.

He explains that the two of them were together in the evening watching videos. Then Kristiansen called and asked if they wanted to come down for a visit.

– Was there anything striking, surprising or unusual about it? Ask state attorney Andreas Schei.

– It was not usual for Viggo to call us to ask if we came to him more, he replies.

When they came down, Andersen was there, the friend explains. Kristiansen babysat for a family member, he says. They were therefore not allowed to enter the house, as the friend understands it.

Schei asks what they did when they came to visit. He says that they were sitting outside, and that Andersen didn’t say anything in particular.

– I guess we would rather talk to Viggo. We were probably quite surprised that we couldn’t get in, after all we had been called down, he says.

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The boom

The comrade who was with Leonard Hovden and jogging in Baneheia on 19 May 2000 will explain himself to Sør-Rogaland district court on Monday.

VG went in 2021This case was published in 2021, and therefore does not reflect developments in the case since then. through the lessons of destiny in Baneheia, and surveyed several of the witnesses. You can see the map and the explanations yourself here.

Hovden said when he testified in court last week that he remembered there was no bike at the barrier when they finished their run and stretched out.

The jogger who testified on Monday does not remember if he noticed anything.

– When you have stood on the bar and stretched 1000 times, then…

Andersen has explained that Kristiansen locked his bike to the barrier that evening.

Acquitted Viggo Kristiansen has explained that he cycled home.

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In September 2000, the jogger was also in for questioning. He then said that he did not remember seeing any bicycles in or near the parking space, reads public prosecutor Johan Øverberg.

– But Leonard is much more interested in bicycles than I am, says the jogger in court today.

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Maintains his explanation

Andersen is accused of killing ten-year-old Lena Sløgedal Paulsen.

The prosecution believes Andersen killed her with a knife on the evening of 19 May 2000 in Baneheia in Kristiansand.

They believe they can prove that he did it to cover up sexual abuse he had committed against her and Stine Sofie Sørstrønen

Andersen, for his part, has maintained his explanation that there were two of them about the murders, and that the other was Viggo Kristiansen.

Kristiansen was acquitted in 2022 of having something to do with the murders of Stine Sofie Sørstrønen (8) and Lena Sløgedal Paulsen (10).

He was summoned as a witness in the case against Andersen. On Wednesday, Kristiansen was strongly pressured by Andersen’s defenders.