Four came to visit at night, soon an elderly man died in his burning house – Yle follows the Kujala homicide investigation

Burned sofa and a chaotic living room after fire. — The living room of the victim’s house was badly damaged by the fire.

On Thursday, the court will hear closing arguments, and the Päijät-Häme District Court will deliver its verdict in the afternoon. The four men are accused of, among other things, manslaughter.

The Kujala homicide case in Lahti will be heard in court for the last day on Thursday.

The gang is accused of violently robbing a 69-year-old man, setting fire to his house and leaving him for dead.

Closing statements will be heard in the courtroom today, and the Päijät-Häme District Court will deliver its verdict in the afternoon.

There are a total of six accused: four men are charged with murder, gross robbery and gross damage. In addition, a man and a woman are charged with money laundering.

Four main incidents have been imprisoned since September. Three of them will be remotely attended by Thursday sessions from different prisons.

In the video below, suspects arrive in the courtroom on Monday last week.

Victim died from flue gases

The suspected blood act occurred last summer, the night before the first day of August.

The quartet went to the victim’s house together. Three of them were 33-35 at the time of the act, one 63 years old.

At the victim’s home, one of the accused hit the victim with a glass of glass, the other with a fist. According to the prosecutor, the quartet also used other head violence against the victim.

The men forced the victim to transfer € 1,380 to a woman who is one of the accused of money laundering. In addition, the men forced the victim to apply for nearly € 25,000 in quick tips, but most of the loan applications were rejected. They also stole the man’s laptop and the phone, says the prosecutor.

According to the prosecutor, the robbery was particularly raw or cruel because the victim was hit by an object, the act continued for a long time, and there were four men against one old man.

The living room of a detached house that was badly suffered in a fire. — According to the prosecution, the defendants wedged open the front door of the house when they left the scene.

The victim of the crime died in flue gases. According to the prosecutor, the men lit the house on fire, left the injured and possibly unconscious victim, and wedged the front door open so that the fire would get oxygen and stay.

The prosecutor believes that the purpose of the fire was to silence the victim. The prosecutor calls for men to be sentenced to murder or at least gross death.

None of the accused give a killing, aggravated death, aggravated robbery, or gross damage. Two of them acknowledge a basic robbery, one mild assault and one mild harm.

The woman whose account the victim transferred money admits money laundering. A man accused of money laundering, on the other hand, denies the crime. She raised 400 euros from a woman’s account. The accused of money was not present when other suspected crimes occurred.

Text message aroused police suspicion

At least some of the accused knew the victim.

A possible motive for the act is related to Kela’s subsidies, which one of the accused received because he was enrolled at the victim’s address. The support stopped when the victim had informed Kela that the person would not actually live in the house.

During the pre -trial investigation, police found a text message on the victim’s phone, one of the accused. Police immediately suspected that the sender of the message could join the victim’s death.

In the message, the accused writes that \”Because of the call of your reel, my money is broken and inherited back when you are littered there that I haven’t lived there (…) so you pay for my sixth year money. ???\”.

The blue -hat man covers his face with white paper. — The suspects covered their faces in court. Photo taken on the first day of the case on 10 March.

In addition, police investigated the victim that the victim had returned over € 350 to Kela in June. The victim had recorded the name and date of birth of the SMS and that it was a refund of an error.

The accused who sent a text message awards a dispute over Kela’s subsidies. However, he says that they reached an agreement with the victim the night that the victim died in his burning home.

The brothers on trial

The prosecutor calls for an absolute imprisonment for the male four and fines for the accused of money laundering. All the accused are from Lahti.

A man who has inherited his Kela money and a man accused of money laundering are brothers.

A total of 28 different people were interrogated during the preliminary investigation. The police pre -investigation report has over 1,000 pages.