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full screen A memorial stone for Birgitte Tengs in Norwegian Karmøy on the Norwegian south-west coast where she was found dead in 1997. Archive image. Photo: Jan Kåre Ness/AP/TT
The man charged with the murder of 17-year-old Birgitte Tengs in Norway in May 1995 denies the crime.
The trial against the 52-year-old began on Monday, more than 27 years after the crime.
The man was arrested last autumn and has been in custody since then. He has denied any crime throughout the investigation and says he does not understand how the investigators were able to find his DNA on the girl’s tights. The DNA match came when new analyzes were made of hairs found on the girl.
The man’s DNA has also been linked to another femicide in Norway, the murder of Tina Jørgensen in Stavanger in 2000. In that case, no prosecution decision has yet been made.