– When they commit such gross violence, they have also accepted that Phillip will die if they continue, she says in her procedure.
Phillip Johansen received 39 injuries, and Deputy State Obstetrician Christina Jacobsen has said that she has not seen such bad injuries before. The injuries are “abusive” and have put the 28-year-old in a “severe pain condition”.
The two brothers have explained in court that their mother told them that Phillip Johansen had raped her. Therefore, late on the evening of June 22, they went with their friend out into the North Forest at a shelter site, where they drank alcohol.
At one point, they ran on the tank for more, and when they returned, they assaulted Phillip Johansen. He was knocked to the ground, and according to the indictment, he had a knee placed against his neck.
He was also beaten with a spruce raft, stabbed, beaten with a bottle, beaten with fiery fire-bearers and trampled on the head and crotch with clogs.
Subsequently, they left him in the woods, and when Phillip Johansen was found lifeless the next day, he was declared dead after resuscitation attempts.
The brothers threw the victim’s shoes and telephone into the fire before leaving him. But unlike the prosecutor, Peter Secher, who is defending the eldest of the brothers, does not think it is a sign of murder.
“It shows that he must lie and suffer” does not die. He was abused. But leaving him alive is an atypical method of killing.
– But what happened was rude. I’m not trying to downplay that. But the injuries individually were not fatal, says Peter Secher.
There has been speculation on social media as to whether the killing of the Danish-Tanzanian Phillip Johansen was racist. But the prosecution cannot prove that, points out Anne Moe.
Murder is generally punishable by 12 years’ imprisonment, but the punishment can be increased, for example, in the case of ill-treatment. Violence resulting in death, on the other hand, is punished more leniently.
Only when the verdict of guilt has come on Tuesday at 9 o’clock will the prosecutor and the two defenders argue for which punishment is appropriate.
/ ritzau /
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Journalists have come from near and far to follow the case in the city court Rรธnne about the murder of 28-year-old Phillip Johansen. On Tuesday, the Court on Bornholm will decide whether the accused brothers should be convicted of murder or violence resulting in death. Pelle Rink / Ritzau Scanpix
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Source: The Nordic Page