Stig Gustafsson, who has been remanded in custody last week on suspicion of killing three teenagers at Bodom Lake in 1960, denies that he was behind the stabbing.

   

Gustafsson's lawyer Riitta Leppiniemi emphasised on Tuesday that what is going on now is only the preliminary investigation, and that nobody has been officially charged in the case.

   

Leppiniemi returns from a business trip to Germany today, Wednesday, after which she can join her client in police interrogations. Previously Gustafsson has been represented during questioning by another lawyer from the same legal firm. She had little more to say.

   

"He has voluntarily gone to the police for questioning whenever asked", Leppiniemi says.

   

"It is a fact that when a person is suspected of three murders, it is quite upsetting."

Meanwhile, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is sticking to its policy of silence in the case, and is giving out no information on possible progress in the investigation.

   

However, the NBI has received a number of tipoffs from the public at large.

   

Gustafsson was on the same camping trip as the three victims, and the sole survivor of the attack. Apparently the focus of the investigation has been on how he sustained the injuries that he received on the fateful night. Investigators want to determine if the wounds were caused by a struggle, if they were self-inflicted, or if there was some other cause.