Dregs by Jorn Lier Horst

Author:Jorn Lier Horst [Horst, Jorn Lier]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Mystery
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Published: 2012-01-19T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 34

Wisting sat beneath the outdoor wall light, placing the package wrapped in grey paper on his lap. It was one of those rare evenings with no chill in the air, which was soft and soothing.

He tore off the paper and threw it down at his side, glanced at the formal dispatch communication from the police in Søndre Buskerud prior to leafing through the yellowing documents.

The file of criminal proceedings against Ken Ronny Hauge was not thick. He estimated that he would take a couple of hours to read through the papers concerning the case.

The file was organised with contents lists of the police reports, witnesses, technical investigations and a separate list of documents for everything connected with the defendant.

He began with the report that had been written by the first patrol to arrive on the scene where Constable Edgar Bisjord was found shot dead on that September night in 1991. It did not contain much more than cold factual information about time and place: who had raised the alarm about the discovery and how the crime scene had been secured.

The reports from the crime technicians at Kripos, the national criminal investigation department, were more interesting and revealed how the investigators had got on the track of the perpetrator within a few hours.

The introductory report was divided into three parts. It described the victim, the police car and the surrounding area. The crime scene investigation gave a good impression of what had happened. There was a description of two sets of tyre tracks leading on to a side road. One set belonged to the police car, and the other was from an unknown vehicle that had turned at the end of the road and left behind deep marks on the gravel after accelerating out again.

Edgar Bisjord must have come across a suspicious car, indicated for it to stop, and then followed it along the short side road until it came to a halt. Subsequently, the young policeman had got out of the police car and approached the vehicle.

It was something that all policemen on patrol do countless times while on duty. Vehicle registration document and driver’s licence were checked. A missing backlight or speed was commented on before the driver was sent on his way, sometimes with a fine or a checklist.

However, on the night of 23rd September in 1991, it had developed into something completely different from a routine inspection. A weapon was pulled out and seconds later, the policeman was lying dead on the ground.

Wisting leafed through the folder of illustrations. The uniform cap was lying one metre away from his dead colleague. The coloured pictures of the policeman lying on his back made an impression. The blood had spread into the grey, dry gravel underneath him. His eyes were wide open and fixed in what looked like panic. Round his mouth there were thick crusts of congealed mucus and froth.

He closed the folder of photographs and went back to the text. The most important find that the crime scene investigators came up with was on the passenger seat of the police car.

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