An elderly man died at home in flue gases, four men were charged with murder

Elderly The man's death in the fire brought the prosecution to four men in Päijät-Häme District Court on Monday. The same men were also charged with the gross robbery of a dead man in the situation.

All four have been imprisoned since last summer and now the prosecutor demands absolute imprisonment for them. A 69-year-old man died of a fire on fire at home in July in Kujala, Lahti.

According to the summons, the male four killed the victim by leaving him injured or possibly unconscious in the house they had set on fire. The man died after inhalation of toxic flue gases.

According to the challenge, the situation began when the four at night arrived at the man's home and began to demand money from the man using and threatened with violence. One of the men, according to the indictment, hit the man possibly with a glass of glass. The victim was kicked and otherwise struck.

The man was forced to transfer money from his bank account around € 1,400. He was also forced to apply for loans from different companies for around € 25,000, of which a loan of around € 3,500 succeeded.

The man suffered various injuries from violence, for example, in his head.

Next According to the indictment, the men ignited the bedroom of the office room, bedroom bed and living room sofas, as well as kitchen curtains. According to the indictment, an injured and poorly moving elderly man stayed in the house.

According to the indictment, the men noticed the spread of the fire and the smoke formation and left the exterior door by wedging to gap to get the fire oxygen.

When they left, they noticed that the kitchen window broke down in the heat. According to the prosecution, these acts were intended to kill an old man, or at least they had to understand that death is a likely consequence. Alternative prosecution is a milder act, or gross death.

The house was damaged to be demolished in the fire, which is now also required to have financial damage of EUR 155,000.

Accused They see otherwise in their early answers.

One says, for example, that they went to the scene in a familiar drinking group, apparently to investigate some debt that he had no share. He said he had hit the victim, but denied having set fires. When he left, the victim was not so injured that he could not leave himself.

The other said he had passed on to the victim's account number, but felt he was in no way involved in the fire. The third said they had urged everyone, including the victim, to leave the house as smoke began to form.

The fourth said he had set the curtains on fire, but they only burned in part. For him, the victim was functional when the accused left the house. No one admitted that he had wedged the door.

The district court will give its judgment later.