A brand new twist this week over who lit the fires that killed 159 folks aboard the automotive and passenger ferry Scandinavia Star in 1990, with a former investigator claiming that the fires had been really began by crew members of the ship.

On April 7, 1990, the Bahamas-flagged Scandinavia Star was crusing from Olso, Norway to Denmark when two separate fires broke out, ultimately engulfing the vessel in thick smoke and killing 159 folks. Initial investigations decided that the blazes had been deliberately lit, allegedly began by a truck driver who died within the blaze.

But chatting with Danish press over the weekend, retired investigator Flemming Thue Jensen, who led the investigation for the Danish Maritime Authority in 1990, claimed that fires had been really started by two members of the ships crew, not by the truck driver.

The truck driver was submit posthumously charged with arson within the incident, however the fees towards him had been dropped in 2014 after it was decided that there was inadequate proof to hyperlink driver to the fires.

Jensen’s new claims appear to corroborate with claims by a few of the sufferer’s members of the family that there could have been some crew member involvement.

In the interviews, Jensen mentioned that the case ought to have been simply solved if solely Norwegian police, in control of the investigations, had solely requested him.