Stepson of Norway’s crown prince jailed for four years in rape case

Oslo tribunal sentences Marius Borg Hoiby, 29, aft convicting him of rape, home unit and cause offences.

An Oslo territory tribunal has sentenced Marius Borg Hoiby, the stepson of Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon, to 4 years successful situation for rape and different crimes.

Hoiby, 29, became portion of the royal household erstwhile his mother, Mette-Marit, joined Haakon successful 2001.

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The tribunal convicted Hoiby of 2 counts of rape arsenic good arsenic home unit against his erstwhile spouse Nora Haukland and narcotics offences. He was acquitted connected 2 abstracted rape counts with judges uncovering insufficient impervious that the encounters were nonconsensual. One of the rapes helium was convicted of took spot successful the basement of the crown prince’s authoritative Skaugum residence.

While denying the rape charges, Hoiby had pleaded blameworthy to home maltreatment and transporting 3.5kg (7.7lb) of marijuana successful 2020.

A tribunal sketch depicts Marius Borg Hoiby, lad of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, during the 3rd time of his proceedings successful Oslo [File: Ane Hem/AFP]

The seven-week proceedings captivated Norway, laying bare Hoiby’s struggles with cause addiction, self-recorded footage of intimate encounters and a trove of much than 800 physics messages submitted arsenic evidence.

Hoiby, who has been successful custody since February 1, did not be the speechmaking of the verdict successful person, citing undisclosed aesculapian reasons. Local media reported helium followed proceedings via a unafraid videolink from Oslo Prison, wherever helium remains held.

During the trial, Hoiby spoke astir increasing up adjacent to the throne without an authoritative title. “I’m mostly known arsenic my mother’s son, not thing else,” helium told the court. “So I’ve had an utmost request for designation my full life, and that manifested itself successful a batch of sex, a batch of drugs and a batch of alcohol.”

Haakon distanced the monarchy from the case, telling reporters that Hoiby is not a subordinate of the Royal House and faces the aforesaid ineligible accountability arsenic immoderate Norwegian citizen. “He is simply a national of Norway and, arsenic such, has the aforesaid responsibilities arsenic everyone else,” Haakon said.