By Cristina Cuadra & Jess Newton
THE OLIVE PRESS has learned that crucial CCTV evidence has been wiped off to determine the last hours of a teenager who was killed in a mystery hit-and-run incident on the Costa del Sol in early July.
According to eyewitnesses, talking to the Olive Press, The 17-year-old Norwegian Nikoline Piwoni was talking to four men alongside a white car at a Repsol petrol station a few hours before her death.
Repsol manager Jose Luis told the Olive Press that the company could only hand over CCTV footage following an official police request. He added that all recordings are automatically deleted after one month, meaning any footage from that night has now been lost. The Olive Press can confirm that police never requested the recordings from the Repsol station.
A witness who saw the 17-year-old Nikoline Piwoni Hoie at a Marbella nightclub just hours before her death last month told the Olive Press she was ‘clearly drugged’.
The fellow clubber – who was standing next to the teenager at Funky Buddha, in Puerto Banus – said she was ‘barely able to speak’ and appeared heavily under the influence.
The Norwegian holidaymaker had been killed on the A7 motorway a couple of hours later.
She had been dropped off on the side of the motorway in Mijas by an Uber driver, with allegedly two or three men beside her.
The new eyewitness account could provide a crucial clue to the final hours of Nikoline, who was spotted talking to a group of Moroccan men at a Repsol petrol station across the road.
She had lost touch with her friend and was allegedly talking to another ‘dark-haired’ girl she had met.
The clubber, who has insisted on remaining anonymous, said what really stood out was her condition.
“She seemed disoriented and was struggling to speak properly before she left the venue,” she revealed.
The witness recalls the teenager being with ‘several young men who appeared Scandinavian and were very tall’.
“She was ordering a drink right next to me and was practically incoherent. I really don’t think she needed another drink,” she added, it was ‘very late’.
Nikolene was eventually struck and killed at around 5.20am after apparently attempting to cross the motorway on foot, despite reports that a pedestrian underpass was available nearby.
Why she chose to walk onto the road remains unclear.
If toxicology confirms the presence of a powerful sedative or other unexpected substances, it could provide an explanation for her disorientation and why she crossed there.
The Funky Buddha nightclub has declined to comment.
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