"We have investigated possible inhalation of stomach contents. There is no support for any cause of death other than strangulation," Alexandra Lazarevic said during the district court hearing.
The 20-year-old's defence lawyer Clea Sangborn is pushing the thesis that it may be difficult to establish that strangulation by strangulation caused Tove's death. She believes that the cause of death could, for example, be suffocation by Tove breathing in stomach contents, so-called aspiration.
But that excludes the coroner, who says they have investigated this.
"Then you see that the airways are filled with stomach contents. They're not. We have not seen any stomach contents in the lungs. This means that the contents of the stomach have come after breathing has stopped.
The 18-year-old is not sitting in the hall
The 18-year-old has chosen not to sit in the room when the coroner is heard. She sits in a detention room and follows the interrogation with only sound.
The 20-year-old claims the 18-year-old restrained Tove on the toilet floor where she died, but the younger woman denies that.