File picture of Norway’s Marius Borg Hoiby.
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A fourth girl on the centre of a rape case in opposition to the son of Norway’s crown princess testified in an Oslo court docket on Wednesday (February 18, 2026) over an alleged rape in 2024 when he was already below investigation for different incidents.
Marius Borg Hoiby, Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s 29-year-old son from a relationship earlier than her 2001 marriage to inheritor obvious Crown Prince Haakon, faces 38 expenses, together with raping 4 girls whereas they have been asleep or had handed out.
Hoiby has pleaded responsible to a number of comparatively minor offences however denies the rapes. He faces as much as 16 years in jail if convicted.
The court docket heard testimony on Wednesday (February 18) from a girl who recounted an alleged rape on the night time of November 1 and November 2, 2024. Hoiby is accused of getting engaged in sexual acts whereas she was asleep and of getting filmed the acts with out her data.
As with the three different alleged rapes, the occasions are stated to have taken place following an evening of ingesting – throughout which Hoiby is alleged to have used cocaine – after preliminary consensual intercourse within the younger girl’s lodge room.
“I used to be getting increasingly drained. I felt like I used to be simply mendacity there, and he simply wouldn’t cease. The extra drained I obtained, the much less I took half,” she advised the court docket.
After she had advised him she wished to sleep, she stated she was woken up by “a violent blow” to her genital space.
“It was painful,” she stated, including that “I feel I simply froze, then I fell again asleep.”
Hoiby is accused of getting filmed 27 movies and brought 4 sexually express images that night time, a few of which, in response to the prosecution, present the girl was asleep.
Hoiby will give his model of occasions on Wednesday afternoon (February 18). From the outset, he has denied rape and maintains that each one the intercourse had been consensual.
On the time of the fourth alleged rape, he was already below police investigation. Hoiby was arrested on August 4, 2024, suspected of getting assaulted his accomplice the earlier night time.
The investigation into that incident uncovered a slew of different suspected offences, together with video footage on his telephone and laptop computer of what police believed to be rapes.
When confronted by police, not one of the girls was conscious of what had occurred to them or that the actions could possibly be thought of felony.
Revealed – February 18, 2026 06:43 pm IST