What amazed us in this case is that the investigation and the media have based their stories on the so called witnesses’ version in the murder case. (look in the section articles)
There is hardly anyone who has tried to investigate this from Tjostolv and Joshuas’ side. What if the media and investigators would give their version a chance? We are after all talking about the death penalty that may be overturned into lifetime sentences.
In this page we will bring information that can help see the murder case from a different perspective than the “witnesses”.
The driver was shot from the left
The missionary named Bregård who has grown up in Congo, and has lived most of his adult life in this country, told me some time ago something important regarding Kasongo, the dead driver. Both the driver’s brother and the investigators told Bregård that the entrance wound was close to the ear on the left side. The exit wound was on the right side and fairly big. Bregård speaks the language and doesn’t need translation. Rune Edvardsen (from the Dina-foundation) heard the same, but needed translation.
The “murder weapon” and the gun has been in Norway the whole time
Since August, Norwegian media has been informed that two of the weapons that the Congolese investigators and prosecutors claim Tjostolv and Joshua took with them into Congo, has been in Norway the whole time. This is the so called “murder weapon” and a pistol (found on pictures from the camera or cellphone). It wasn’t until the lawyer Furuholmen got engaged and got help from a journalist from TV2 that the weapons were easily found where they were supposed to be, in Norway. Is the media really not interested in this type of facts? We are after all talking about death penalties against the two men, but headlines that sell are probably more interesting to the press. Below you can read two quotations from the media about this case.
VG October 28th 2009:
Quote: “During the trial…. pictures of two weapons were presented as evidence. The court claimed they had proved that the norwegians had the two weapons, a rifle and a 9mm pistol with them into Congo in addition to the shotgun.”
VG goes on by telling that the shotgun was found and it’s stated that this is not the murder weapon.
In the judgement papers, page 21 the judge has indentified the murder weapon. This is a weapon that refers to a photo.
TV2 october 28th 2009:
Quote: “TV2 has traced the weapons… The gun can be traced back to the Crown Prince’s residence Skaugum. The fall of 2006 Tjostolv served in the Royal Guard. When he was stationed at Skaugum Tjostolv says he took a picture of the gun with his cell phone. Sources in the Norwegian Defence confirm that there was a weapon like this at Skaugum when Tjostolv served there. This gun has never been reported missing, and is still in the Norwegian Defence possession.
The other gun that the Congolese police think is the murder weapon, TV2 got access to in a forest outside of Oslo on Tuesday. The serial-number on the gun is identical to the number on the gun Tjostolv and Joshua poses with. This is a soft-gun – a weapon that uses rubber bullets. It’s not possible to use sharp bullets in this gun. This is therefore not the murder weapon.
Other killers has been named
The information below came to the Norwegian embassy in Angola in the middle of October. The source is considered credible by the Foreign Ministry. The source is working in an international organisation. For safety reasons we don’t write the name or what kind of work this person does. The information was written in French and e-mailed. The e-mail was translated to norwegian by someone at the Embassy in Angola.
The text is printed exactly as lawyer Furuholmen received it on October 29th. (We show both the original text in French, and the authorized translation into English here)
They were to be scared
From another source that I don’t want to name, I (Kari Hilde French) heard a story that confirms the story above. That there were others who were involved in the killing of the driver Kasongo.
I was told that the boys were in Congo for some reasons. They were going to investigate something, but backed out. Therefore someone wanted to scare them. The driver was part of the plot. Everything got out of control. The driver was killed by accident by the attackers and Tjostolv and Joshua managed to escape.
Kari Hilde French November 18th
