Nearly nine years ago, pregnant Louise Borglit went for a walk in Elverparken in Herlev. She never returned home. Borglit was brutally killed with multiple knife wounds across her body.
For years the case remained unsolved despite extensive police investigation. Authorities could neither find the perpetrator nor the murder weapon.
In May 2022, police arrested Alexander Toro Møllmann, then 29 years old. The arrest came nearly six years after the 2016 murder. Last year, a district court found him guilty and sentenced him to secure detention.
Now the case moves to the Eastern High Court as Møllmann appeals the verdict. The high court has allocated 13 days for the trial.
The breakthrough came through an unusual police operation. An intelligence agent codenamed 'Frank' was placed in the same prison where Møllmann was serving time for attempted murder of a former girlfriend.
For three weeks, the agent recorded hours of conversations with Møllmann during prison yard walks. Prosecutors say these recordings contain multiple confessions, including descriptions of a knife.
The defense argues these were merely 'talk' to change the subject away from the murder. Møllmann's previous lawyer challenged the recordings' admissibility, claiming they constituted an interrogation without proper rights protection.
In May, the Supreme Court ruled the recordings could be used as evidence. This decision allowed the district court case to conclude about a month later.
The court also considered Møllmann's 'incoherent' alibi, witness descriptions, and his cocaine and hashish addiction around the time of the murder. The agent's testimony was deemed credible.
Multiple witnesses from the original trial will testify again in the high court proceedings. The defendant will also testify. The appeal case is expected to conclude by late November.
The use of undercover agents in prison cells raises legitimate questions about evidence collection methods, even when pursuing serious convictions.