On October 1, the Tallinn District Court canceled the order by which the Pärnu County Court this spring gave the police permission to listen to the phone calls of the 31-year-old sister of Kairi, who is suspected of killing a newborn child. The district court analyzed the request of the police and the decision of the lower court and found that the granting of the surveillance permit was not legal, writes Eesti Ekspress.
The police gathered evidence by wiretapping calls over several months. “Since it is not possible to request wiretapping of the prison phone, a way was found to intercept Kairi’s calls through his family member,” explained Kairi’s defense attorney Robert Sarv to Ekspres. “It’s not that anything important has been collected with the surveillance, it’s about ensuring basic rights.”
On the morning of February 5, a dog brought the body of a newborn to the Suure-Lähtru farmyard. The police then began a landscape search to find the child’s mother. Based on the DNA test, the police identified the woman who gave birth to the child, who had traveled to England shortly after the start of the police operation. The woman was detained on March 9 in Morocco. In July, the woman returned to Estonia, and at the end of the month, court hearings regarding the incident will begin.
2024-10-04 12:38:00
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