The 38-year-old electrician is known to be guilty of murder, attempted rape and indecent handling of a corpse.
38-year-old Thomas Thomsen has just been sentenced to custody for the murder of Mia Skadhauge Stevn.
The judgment was handed down at the Western High Court, and it means that the high court upholds the district court’s judgment from last year.
Thomas Thomsen was also sentenced to pay the costs of the case and compensation to the survivors.
The 22-year-old Mia Skadhauge Stevn disappeared after a city trip in Jomfru Ane Gade on 6 February 2022.
She was last seen alive early in the morning on Vesterbro in the middle of Aalborg, where she got into a dark car.
After several days of searching, her body was found in Dronninglund Storskov.
Thomas Thomsen had made a persistent attempt to get rid of the body, which had been tried to dissolve and was dismembered into several parts.
The 38-year-old man has acknowledged this, while his explanation was that it was an act of panic after Mia Skadhauge Stevn had died by accident.
The High Court justified the punishment with the fact that the 38-year-old man had shown a very particular recklessness and that he had taken advantage of Mia Skadhauge Stevn’s guardianless condition.
The court emphasized that he drove her to a deserted area in Hammer Bakker, after which he killed her and subjected her body to cruel treatment.
The court has also given weight to the Forensics Board’s assessment that Thomas Thomsen is assessed to be dangerous – and there is a fear of committing new crimes that are dangerous to people.
There were 13 votes for custody and five votes for life imprisonment.
‘Built for the occasion’
Thomas Thomsen has along the way pleaded not guilty to murder and rape. He has maintained in both the city and county court that the 22-year-old woman died by accident in the Hammer Bakker forest area north of Aalborg.
According to him, she was strangled by her bag strap when she fell. He would therefore be acquitted by the high court.
But just like at the Court in Aalborg, the Western Landsret chose to reject that explanation.
When Thomas Thomsen was found guilty yesterday, the court called the explanation “constructed for the apartment,” “unbelievable” and incompatible with the forensic examination of the body parts.
The district court believed that the young woman had been strangled by Thomas Thomsen.
The Western High Court also emphasized the macabre treatment of corpses when they decided the question of guilt.
However, the prosecution did not convince the court that the 22-year-old woman had been raped before she was killed. The evidence was not sufficient.
On the other hand, the court believed that it was Thomas Thomsen’s intention to rape Mia Skadhauge Stevn, and therefore he was found guilty of attempted rape. The district court reached the same decision last year.
A total of 16 witnesses have been part of the high court’s assessment.
