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Man convicted of 34-year-old Danish murder

» Updated: 29 August 2024, 23:13

» Published: 11 July 2024

Man convicted of 34-year-old Danish murder
Photo: Jesper Andkjær/Ritzau/TT

A 34-year-old murder in central Copenhagen has been solved.

The Copenhagen City Court (equivalent to a district court) has sentenced a 54-year-old man to 11 years and 6 months in prison for the murder of a 23-year-old woman on New Year's Eve in 1990.

The woman was found dead in her apartment in the Nørrebro district. She had multiple stab wounds and had also been strangled.

The man, who was doing military service in Copenhagen at the time of the murder, denies the crime, citing that he does not remember anything from the night of the murder.

The breakthrough in the investigation came only last year, when the police used DNA from the crime scene to search a genealogy register. They then got a hit on a young man who had been arrested for a minor offense. This turned out to be the son of the now-convicted man.

Further evidence was found earlier this year when the police compared the convicted man's footprint with a bloody footprint from the crime scene that had been preserved. The footprints were found to be identical.

TTT
By TTThis article has been altered and translated by Sweden Herald

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