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A 4th pistillate astatine the centre of a rape lawsuit against the lad of Norway’s crown princess testified successful an Oslo tribunal connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026) implicit an alleged rape successful 2024 erstwhile helium was already nether probe for different incidents.
Marius Borg Hoiby, Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s 29-year-old lad from a narration earlier her 2001 matrimony to heir evident Crown Prince Haakon, faces 38 charges, including raping 4 women portion they were dormant oregon had passed out.
Hoiby has pleaded blameworthy to respective comparatively insignificant offences but denies the rapes. He faces up to 16 years successful situation if convicted.
The tribunal heard grounds connected Wednesday (February 18) from a pistillate who recounted an alleged rape connected the nighttime of November 1 and November 2, 2024. Hoiby is accused of having engaged successful intersexual acts portion she was dormant and of having filmed the acts without her knowledge.
As with the 3 different alleged rapes, the events are said to person taken spot pursuing a nighttime of drinking – during which Hoiby is alleged to person utilized cocaine – aft archetypal consensual enactment successful the young woman’s edifice room.
“I was getting much and much tired. I felt similar I was conscionable lying there, and helium conscionable wouldn’t stop. The much bushed I got, the little I took part,” she told the court.
After she had told him she wanted to sleep, she said she was woken up by “a convulsive blow” to her genital area.
“It was painful,” she said, adding that “I deliberation I conscionable froze, past I fell backmost asleep.”
Hoiby is accused of having filmed 27 videos and taken 4 sexually explicit photos that night, immoderate of which, according to the prosecution, amusement the pistillate was asleep.
Hoiby volition springiness his mentation of events connected Wednesday day (February 18). From the outset, helium has denied rape and maintains that each the enactment had been consensual.
At the clip of the 4th alleged rape, helium was already nether constabulary investigation. Hoiby was arrested connected August 4, 2024, suspected of having assaulted his spouse the erstwhile night.
The probe into that incidental uncovered a slew of different suspected offences, including video footage connected his telephone and laptop of what constabulary believed to beryllium rapes.
When confronted by police, nary of the women was alert of what had happened to them oregon that the actions could beryllium considered criminal.
