Valkeakoski’s murder | The court’s reasoning was published: For these reasons, Valkeakoski’s teenage death was murder

Pirkanmaan on Friday, the district court gave its expected written verdict in the murder case. It now becomes more clear why the court considered the homicide committed in Valkeakoski in May to be murder and not manslaughter.

The court already stated last week that Tuomas Sakari Matias Salminen19, was guilty of murder. The district judge read him a life sentence in the courtroom. He was also convicted of aggravated child rape. The victim was a 15-year-old girl.

The victim’s relatives wanted Salminer to be sentenced for murder, while the prosecutor considered the act to be murder. The transformation of the manslaughter charge pursued by the prosecutor into a murder verdict demanded by the interested parties is exceptional.

Legal now gives reasons in its judgment for why it thinks it was a case of murder.

First of all, the court found that Salminen strangled the victim with his hands and a belt. This was evidenced by the marks on the neck. The marks would have been difficult to explain as caused only by hands, but they fit as caused by a belt.

The forensic doctor heard as a witness said that the strangulation did not happen quickly, but generally could have lasted minutes. The court did not believe Salminen’s claim that the strangulation was intended to silence the victim.

It was the belt that indicated the intent to kill, the court stated.

Many other circumstances in the case supported the conclusion that the obvious purpose of Salminen’s procedure was to kill the person concerned.

“Thus, Salminen has intentionally committed a murder,” the court finds.

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“Salminen’s behavior shows complete disregard for another person’s life.”

Legal considered the murder to be gross even when judging it as a whole, because the act was aimed at a defenseless minor victim and the act was committed in the context of a sexual crime that caused particularly noticeable mental and physical suffering.

“Salminen’s behavior shows complete disregard for another person’s life. Attacking, raping and killing a previously unknown person in a public place are apt to incite fear among the wider population as well,” it states.

The district court listed several facts that justify the murder verdict.

Before the act, Salminen searched for murder, crimes against women, prison conditions, rape and strangulation with a belt. After the act, he made searches related to the killing of a teenage girl in Valkeakoski.

Already two months before the act, he had written on the Ylilauta forum: “Today I will carry out my first kill. A woman who has been aroused for a long time strangles.”

This showed that Salmis had an extraordinary interest in committing the murder by strangulation, the court considers.

One a special indication of preparation was the extra self-made hole in his belt that allowed the belt to be used for strangulation. The court also reminded that Salmis had a knife with him in the act, which indicated preparation for a violent situation.

The court drew attention to the fact that Salminen left his mobile phone at home when he went to look for the victim. Instead, he had a phone with him that didn’t have a working connection. In this way, his movements could not be traced afterwards.

“The fact that a person in Salminen’s age group does not have a mobile phone with them when walking around the city is unusual in itself,” the court stated.

And this is how the court put the facts together: “Salminen’s procedure before the act, the preparation for the act, the determination of the killing and the actions after the act, especially the reset of the cell phone’s factory settings, all show a solid consideration to commit the murder by strangling the woman.”

According to the law, these facts cannot be reasonably explained if the killing had taken place on the spur of the moment during or after sexual intercourse.

The news is being completed.