Here, the accused – an elderly, short and close-built Russian woman – sits next to an interpreter, while prosecutor Anders Larsson tells about the case.
The charge against the woman is that in February 2017, she killed her husband by stabbing him with a needle or needle several times in the neck, chest and shoulder, causing his lung to collapse and he died.
However, the woman denies guilt, and she must give an explanation in court on Wednesday.
The case has been almost four years in the making. It began on February 23, 2017.
At that time, the couple’s adult daughter had recently passed away, and two police officers arrived at the man’s apartment on Amager because a woman had wondered that he was not attending the daughter’s funeral.
The older woman opened the door, and then they made a horrible sight.
– One officer looks down the stairs to the lower floor and sees a person lying on the stairs, says Anders Larsson.
The man had been dead for some time, for the body was in decay. According to the indictment, the killing was committed on February 13 or in the days following.
The woman was immediately suspected in the case and she was remanded in custody for six months before being released again, which she still is today. However, the suspicion did not disappear, and in 2019 the woman was charged with murder.
Since then, the case has been delayed several times. Among other things, it first had to be canceled because teledata was temporarily slowed down as evidence in cases, and then the corona pandemic put an end to the case.
Although the couple’s daughter, whom the man adopted after meeting the mother, died before the man was allegedly killed, she plays a central role in the case.
The prosecutor says that the daughter must have told that the mother poisoned the daughter’s biological father, who died in the 1980s. That was before the accused woman came to Denmark.
The indictment alleges that in addition to the stabbings, the woman also tried to kill the man with an Eastern European drug. It failed because the dose was not adequate, it says.
The indictment states that the woman must have made a false will in the name of her deceased daughter in an attempt to seize the entire inheritance.
However, the prosecutor also stresses that there is no crime behind the daughterโs death.
It is a jury trial to decide the case, which lasts several days.
Source: The Nordic Page