Janne Puhakka. Courtesy of Rolf Nordmo/Instagram
Janne Puhakka, Finland’s first brazenly homosexual ice hockey participant, is useless after a suspected homicide. He was 29.
Puhakka, who performed for Espoo Blues and Espoo United earlier than ending his profession on the finish of the 2017–2018 season, died within the residence he shared along with his Norwegian veterinarian associate, Rolf Nordmo, Finland newspaper Ilta-Sanomat reported on Sunday, October 13.
Based on Finland media, Puhakka’s case is being handled as a homicide with a 65-year-old suspect detained on the scene on suspicion of capturing the athlete to loss of life. Ilta-Sanomat reported that Nordmo, 65, is the suspect, however police haven’t confirmed the suspect’s id.
Detective Inspector Matti Högman instructed information company STT there was “purpose to consider the suspect’s actions have been deliberate and merciless” and the “suspect and sufferer knew one another.”
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Quickly after Puhakka’s loss of life was confirmed, Finland’s former Prime Minister Sanna Marin took to Instagram to share a picture of the previous ice hockey participant with a damaged love coronary heart emoji.
“We ship our honest condolences to his household, his kinfolk and all his former teammates,” the Rapaces de Hole hockey group stated in a press release through Instagram on Monday, October 14. “Presenting within the group throughout the 2017/2018 season, Janne marked the employees and his teammates along with his kindness and group spirit.”
Along with writing a memoir about his life, Pahakka opened up about his relationship with Nordmo throughout a latest candid interview.
Based on the athlete, he initially selected to not disclose his sexual id and relationship to his household, mates or teammates.
“I used to be frightened, and I didn’t need folks to learn about my sexuality,” Puhakka instructed South West Information Service in 2022. “I used to be frightened of the way in which I’d be perceived within the ultra-masculine sporting world.”
Puhakka later got here out to his household and shared that his boyfriend was 37 years older. He confirmed his kinfolk took the information nicely.
“We discover all of the feedback fairly humorous, and as soon as folks begin speaking and get to know us they’re typically so heat and accepting,” Nordmo beforehand shared about folks’s first reactions to their romance. “I typically say Janne is an outdated soul in a younger physique and I’m a younger soul in an outdated physique.”
When requested in the event that they plan on having kids, Nordmo stated they have been centered on having fun with the current.
“It’s necessary to be completely happy now, and I don’t see the purpose in dwelling on the longer term,” he stated. “Who is aware of what’s across the nook?”
