Attention in the murder trial shifts to operational aspects.
THE PROSECUTION’s surprise witness in the Ulvila murder trial, called before the District Court of Satakunta on 5 September, testified that the victim seemed distressed while attending a class at the Haaga University of Applied Sciences in 2004. “He said that he was afraid something might happen to the children,” she stated, inferring then that he was referring to his wife, Anneli Auer, currently accused of his murder. The witness also stated that she was under the impression that Auer and her husband were on the brink of divorce before having their youngest child.
In response, defence counsel Juha Manner inquired why no one else from the course has been called to the stand, as some of the participants were interviewed already in 2007, when the police were looking for an outside perpetrator. “You might get altogether different stories,” he said, insisting that the evidence has been selected on the premise that Auer is guilty.
Details of investigation revealed to Auer?
Last Thursday, the court also heard more police officers regarding the early stages of the homicide investigation under Juha Joutsenlahti. A female officer said that she overheard Joutsenlahti whisper confidential matters pertaining to the pre-trial investigation to Auer in 2007. The officer, who at the time was in a relationship with Joutsenlahti, also confirmed that Auer was soon ruled out as a possible suspect, revealing that Joutsenlahti had subsequently declared that any officer who pursued the theory further would be removed from the team and face internal investigation.
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Mia Peltola, Soila Ojanen – STT
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