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Sex toy purchase led to murder suspect’s arrest

The credit card of 77-year-old Else Johannesen, who was found strangled to death in her home, was used to purchase a sex toy. Just hours after getting the IP address from the online sexhop owner, police arrested a 15-year-old suspect.

Published: 4 August 2014 20:05 CEST

Sex toy purchase led to murder suspect's arrest

The crime scene in Lemvig. Photo: Brian Rasmussen/Polfoto

According to media reports, the 15-year-old male suspected of strangling 77-year-old Else Johannesen in her Lemvig home used his victim's credit card to purchase a sex toy.

Police allegedly used the purchase on the site sexshop.dk to track down the alleged assailant.

See also: 15-year-old arrested for murder of 77-year-old

Sexshop.dk's owner, Michael Peter Hansen, told TV2 News that he was contacted by police on Monday morning after they traced a purchase made with Johannesen's credit card to the online sex shop. Hansen said he gave police the IP address associated with the purchase some two hours before police arrested the 15-year-old on Monday.

The 1,839 kroner purchase was for this female torso (NSFW link).

Police would neither confirm nor deny the new information.

Sexshop.dk owner Hansen said the experience left him with a weird feeling.

"It's very strange that after killing someone you would go online and buy a sex toy. We have experienced a lot of things, but this here…" he said to TV2.

The suspect is due to appear in court on Tuesday.

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Nordic justice ministers meet tech giants on gangs hiring 'child soldiers'

Denmark’s justice minister, Peter Hummelgaard, said in a press release that he hoped to use the meeting on Friday afternoon to discuss how to stop social media and messaging apps being used by gang criminals, who Danish police revealed earlier this year were using them to recruit so-called “child soldiers” to carry out gang killings.

“We have seen many examples of how the gangs are using social media and encrypted messaging services to plan serious crimes and recruit very young people to do their dirty work,” Hummelgaard said. “My Nordic colleagues and I agree that a common front is needed to get a grip on this problem.”

As well as recruitment, lists have been found spreading on social media detailing the payments on offer for various criminal services.

Hummelgaard said he would “insist that the tech giants live up to their responsibilities so that their platforms do not act as hotbeds for serious crimes” at the meeting, which will take place at a summit of Nordic justice ministers in Uppsala, Sweden.

In August, Hummelgaard held a meeting in Copenhagen with Sweden’s justice minister, Gunnar Strömmer, at which the two agreed to work harder to tackle cross-border organised crime, which has seen a series of Swedish youth arrested in Denmark after being recruited to carry out hits in the country.

According to a press release from the Swedish justice ministry, the morning will be spent discussing how to combat the criminal economy and particularly organised crime in ports, with a press release from Finland’s justice ministry adding that the discussion would also touch on the “undue influence on judicial authorities” from organised crime groups.

The day will end with a round table discussion with Ronald S Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, on how anti-Semitism and hate crimes against Jews can be prevented and fought in the Nordic region.

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