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29-526: Traditionally, Norway's largest sawmill industry was located in Tistedalen. In the 20th century, Tistedalen became a classic working class community, surrounded by small factories. There is some presence of different religious groups. In 1991 and 1992 Tistedalen had four brutal murders. Tistedalen suddenly got into the focus of the media, due to one of the worst murder cases in Norwegian history. In 1994,

58-652: A local man, Roger Haglund, was sentenced for the Tistedalen Murders . The name Tistedal comes from the river "Tista" and "dal" meaning the valley. It is also called Tistdærn by the locals. 59°08′N 11°27′E  /  59.133°N 11.450°E  / 59.133; 11.450 This Østfold location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tistedalen Murders The Tistedalen Murders occurred in 1991 and 1992 in Norway . Four people were killed by Roger Herbert Haglund in

87-475: A police station and prohibitions on travelling beyond a certain region. Failure to comply with an SCPO carries a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment. SCPOs have been described as a "watershed extension of state power in New South Wales" by legal academics, and were strongly opposed by the legal community when they were introduced. In Costa Rica , the 1998 Criminal Proceedings Code allows for

116-437: A pre-trial remand of 12 months if the person is considered a "flight risk". If the case is considered complex in nature, the detention can be increased to up to three and a half years or more of imprisonment. As of 23 May 2013, over 3,000 people were in pre-trial detention. In cases that connected to riots or other situations involving public safety risks, the police can detain a person for up to twelve hours without involving

145-508: A qualifying sexual or violent offence, and the court is satisfied that the person is likely to commit another qualifying sexual or violent offence if they were given a determinate sentence of imprisonment. Preventive detention has a minimum non-parole period of five years in prison, but the sentencing judge can extend this if they believe that the prisoner's history warrants it. A total of 314 people were serving terms of preventive detention in 2013, of whom 34 were on parole. Alfred Thomas Vincent

174-566: A suspect can be for up to 23 days without charge. The length of detention, up to the maximum period, is at the discretion of the public prosecutor and subject to the approval of local courts. It can also be extended. In Malaysia the Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) was a preventive detention law that was enacted after Malaysia gained independence from Britain in 1957. The ISA allowed for detention without trial or criminal charges under limited, legally defined circumstances. The ISA

203-477: A variety of circumstances. In New South Wales , preventive detention regimes, such as Serious Crime Prevention Orders ('SCPOs'), allow the state to detain, continuously monitor, and limit particular activities of those convicted of serious sexual and violent offences. A range of state officials may apply to the NSW courts to create an SCPO consisting of conditions deemed appropriate, such as an obligation to report to

232-423: Is putatively justified for non- punitive purposes, most often to prevent further criminal acts. Preventive detention sometimes involves the detention of a convicted criminal who has served their sentence but is considered too dangerous to release. Remand or pre-trial detention and involuntary commitment are sometimes considered a form of preventive detention. Australia laws authorize preventive detention in

261-406: Is usually used to detain offenders are deemed a threat to society, with the purpose of isolating them for the protection of society. For example, in 2004, Chong Keng Chye was sentenced to 20 years of preventive detention for abusing a child to death and for various cheating offences. He had several past convictions for cheating and violent crimes since he was 16. In another case, Rosli Yassin ,

290-554: The community it is necessary so to do. The act also gives power to the governments to detain a foreigner in a view to regulate his presence or expel from the country. The act was passed in 1980 during the Indira Gandhi Government . The maximum period of detention is 12 months. The order can also be made by the District Magistrate or a Commissioner of Police under their respective jurisdictions, but

319-403: The court described as an "ice cold psychopath," was found guilty and on 26 April 1994 sentenced to 21 years in prison and 5 years preventive detention . The day after the sentencing it was uncovered that Haglund was planning to take a hostage and escape from prison armed with a fake dynamite stick, and he was immediately transferred to a maximum security prison. During the investigation, Haglund

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348-432: The courts. Until 2009, the limit was six hours. This change was part of the so-called Lømmelpakke ( da ). In Germany , preventive detention (German: Sicherungsverwahrung ) is an indeterminate sentence that follows regular imprisonment, imposed as part of a criminal sentence. Sicherungsverwahrung is imposed in the original judicial sentence. It could formerly be subsequently imposed under certain circumstances, but

377-423: The crime however, the siblings had become concerned when they came across an unknown man in their garden. It was dark and they had been unable to recognize the man, who claimed to be looking for a dog. One year later, on 1 September 1992, a 71-year-old pensioner in Tistedalen, Per Rød, was hit in the jaw with an iron bar, then stabbed to death and dumped in a compost pile in his garden. He was reported missing, but

406-467: The detention should be reported to the State Government along with the grounds on which the order has been made. The National Security Act along with other laws allowing preventive detention have come under wide criticism for their alleged misuse. The act's constitutional validity even during peacetime has been described by some sections as an anachronism . In Japan , pre-trial detention of

435-593: The early 1800s, and continued with such laws as the Defence of India Act, 1939 and the Preventive Detention Act 1950. The controversial Maintenance of Internal Security Act was originally enacted by the Indian parliament early during Indira Gandhi 's prime ministership in 1971. However it was amended several times during "The Emergency" (1975–1977), leading to human rights violations. It

464-715: The group announced protests of the International Motor Show Germany . In India , preventive detention is for a maximum period of three months, a limit which can be changed by the Parliament. According to Preventive Detention Act 1950, it can be extended beyond three months up to a total of twelve months, only on the favourable recommendation of an advisory board, made up of High Court judges or persons eligible to be appointed High Court judges. Preventive detention in India dates from British rule in

493-463: The infamous murderer and sex offender Edgar Antonsen , who had taken his own life the same year, had forced him to falsely confess to the crimes. When the trial began Haglund folded under the weight of the prosecutor 's case, and he confessed again. Public prosecutor Lasse Qvigstad presented the accused as a cold and calculating man who murdered his defenceless victims, then took his time to look for valuables in their homes. Roger Herbert Haglund, who

522-432: The interim, on 23 December 1992, a 54-year-old food store manager named Karl Johan Hagevik was found shot in the back of the head in his car. The killer had not taken the victim's money, but instead grabbed Hagevik's bag consisting of three litres of milk. At this point this small urban area near Halden became the focal point of one of the most extensive police investigations in post-war Norway. When darkness fell Tistedalen

551-480: The police were able to apprehend Roger Herbert Haglund, a 55-year-old family man from Tistedalen, on 1 May 1993. The evidence against him was strong from the onset. Haglund's alibi did not hold up to scrutiny, and he was in dire financial straits. To the police investigators who interrogated him, Haglund came across as an unusually cold person. Confronted with the evidence the investigators had uncovered, Haglund confessed, then later retracted his confession, claiming that

580-427: The police were unable to find a body, and so it remained a missing persons case for some time. The victim's car was found in a remote area and his hunting rifle was no longer hanging on the wall in his living room. It wasn't until March 1993 that two neighbours accidentally uncovered the body of Per Rød. It was discovered that he had been stabbed repeatedly. By now the police had four unsolved murders on their hands, as in

609-720: The practice of subsequent incapacitation was ruled a violation of Art 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights . The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany also issued a verdict on Sicherungsverwahrung in May 2011, deeming it unconstitutional. In response, a new law regulating Sicherungsverwahrung was passed in November 2012. In 2023 27 supporters of Last Generation (climate movement) were preemptively imprisoned after

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638-502: The space of one year. On 3 September 1991, the siblings Aase Helene and Arne Odvar Nordby, aged 78 and 74, were murdered by multiple stab wounds across their bodies and then were robbed in their home in Tistedalen . In spite of a massive and prolonged criminal investigation, which included the arrests of two innocent persons, the case seemed destined to remain unsolved. There were few clues and no eyewitnesses. A few days previous to

667-522: Was connected to an unusual brutal double murder in Sweden, committed a few years prior, but he was never prosecuted. Haglund served 13 years of his sentence before being released on parole . By that time he was in poor health. He settled in Skedsmo, then moved to Strømmen , where he died, at the age of 73, on 9 December 2011. Preventive detention Preventive detention is an imprisonment that

696-499: Was given the royal assent on 18 June 2012 and gazetted on 22 June 2012. New Zealand has two types of preventive detention. The one called "preventive detention" is an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment. The other is called a "public protection order" and is a civil detention. "Preventive detention" is an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment, similar to life imprisonment and second only to it in terms of seriousness. It may be given to offenders aged 18 or over who are convicted of

725-644: Was in prison on preventive detention for 52 years from 1968 to 2021. A public protection order is a civil detention order for someone who has finished a finite prison sentence and still poses a very high risk of serious sexual or violent reoffending. The person is detained in a secure civil residence inside the perimeter of a prison. In Singapore , preventive detention is a special type of imprisonment reserved for recalcitrant offenders at least 30 years old with at least three previous convictions since turning 16. This detention order, which may last between seven and 20 years, does not allow remissions for good behaviour. It

754-588: Was invoked against terrorism activity and against anyone deemed a threat to national security. On 15 September 2011, Najib Razak , the then Prime Minister of Malaysia, said that this legislation would be repealed and replaced by two new laws. On 17 April 2012, the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (SOSMA) was approved by the Malaysian Parliament as a replacement for the ISA. It

783-597: Was sentenced in 2012 to 12 years preventive detention for culpable homicide and cheating, before the detention order was increased to 20 years upon the prosecution's appeal. Drug trafficker Abdul Kahar Othman served ten years of preventive detention from 1995 to 2005 due to a lengthy criminal record of drug offences. In February 2024, Singapore passed a dangerous offenders law where dangerous offenders can be held indefinitely even after they have completed their sentences for certain offences such as rape, culpable homicide and abuse of minors. The law will apply to those from

812-512: Was subsequently repealed after Indira Gandhi lost the election in 1977, and the new government took over. India's National Security Act of 1980 empowers the Central Government and State Governments to detain a person to prevent him/her from acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of India, the relations of India with foreign countries, the maintenance of public order, or the maintenance of supplies and services essential to

841-480: Was transformed into a ghost town, the population seemingly living in fear. The police soon established a connection between the three murder cases, as the crimes apparently had been motivated by robbery. Evidence also suggested that the killer was also behind a recent bank robbery in Låby outside Halden. After months of painstaking investigation, carried out in cooperation with National Criminal Investigation Service ,

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