BIRMINGHAM (Dagbladet): When the former fotballdommeren in 20-years let out of custody in the summer of 2016, he should immediately have taken contact with the young boys and performed nettovergrep. An acquaintance of the man took in the day vitneboksen. Where he told about how he became suspicious when he saw the defendant’s contact with young boys online.

When he gave the information to the defendant, who has acknowledged having committed hundreds of atrocities against boys online, he got word to fit their own affairs.

– I did not know that he had contact with minors before I became familiar with the investigation. But when he got out of custody the first time, I was aware of what he was charged with. After that he dropped out, I got to see that he let to young boys on Facebook. I was easier said than done and sent message in which I asked: What is the deal with the young guys you add as a friend on Facebook. I was told that I should not bother me.

Mentor and friend

It says the man in the 40-years who has known the defendant for nearly ten years. The witness was even familiar with the defendant through the fotballmiljøet. There, he had for each a kind of mentorrolle for the talented judge.

We met and was known for closer to ten years ago. It developed into a friendship. He was trustworthy, serious, goal-oriented and systematic, ” says the witness.

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the Calendar turned 31. august when bekymringsmeldinga was sent from the witness to the defendant. The defendant was then released from custody two months earlier. At the same time, the police started to dig a trench in the extensive material now presented in the right – tens of thousands of nude photos and videos of young boys.

another person

Only a few days after that message was sent, the defendant was arrested on new. Since he has not been out of custody.

I have visited him regularly in prison, and we have talked a lot about the case. There are two entirely different people you see today and the one in 2016. He has gone from objectionable to acknowledge what he has done, ” says the witness.

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Wednesday came it also revealed shocking details about the findings in the police investigation. Despite the fact that one has found a total of 458 offended boys in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, have the attempt at the contact between the defendant and others have been far more extensive.

– Overall, we have seen that the defendant has contacted the 15 000 profiles. It is seized chatlogger with a total of 1.1 million messages. On average, it is sent and received 1190 unique messages daily for over 2.5 years, said etterforskningsleder Vemund Edge Sæther in court today.

Offended in the three countries

In the course of the last two years has Sæther worked daily with “Operation Sandra”, which resulted in the trial which started in Nedre Romerike district court on Tuesday this week.

Politioverbetjenten explains itself in the day about how the police dealt with the investigation, and how the defendant notoriously contacted the young guys on Facebook, hot or not, peaks, Instagram, Omegle, and Yellow.

Ten investigators, three people who conducted the barneavhør and a IT-investigator is one of the things we’ve had on the matter. Together we have seen on more than 22 000 videos to try to identify the victims. The defendant had not even categorized the movies, so we had to see all, ” said Sæther.

– Sent and received 1190 messages every day for over two years