The Finnish police suspect an Estonian woman of killing her newborn twins last summer, news agency STT reported.
Estonian woman suspected of killing her twins in Finland
9th February 2013, 09:32
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Investigator Tero Muurmann from the Keski-Uudenmaa police said there were several circumstances which made the police change its mind about the case that was initially viewed as one of manslaughter. Preliminary investigation and the infants' injuries gave grounds to suspect premeditated murder, he said.
The central criminal police found the bodies of the children in the village of Klaukkala north of Helsinki last October during an unrelated search. One of the dead infants was found in an apartment and the other in a wasteland a couple of kilometers away. The newborn twins, a boy and a girl, had been killed at the end of June.
Muurmann said "economic and social circumstances" were involved in the case.
In the course of investigation several persons have been questioned in both Estonia and Finland.
According to investigation data only the mother knew about the birth of the infants. Muurmann said that even the father was not aware of the woman's pregnancy and that no evidence pointing at the father's being connected with the babies' death has surfaced in the course of the proceedings.
Preliminary investigation is on the home stretch, STT said.