Overview
- An Oslo district court on July 13 extended Høiby’s pre‑trial detention by four weeks but ruled he may serve that time under electronic ankle monitoring at a Semsveien residence on the Skaugum estate.
- The Oslo prosecution filed an immediate complaint after the court ruling but then chose not to pursue a blocking appeal, allowing Høiby to be moved from Ila prison into monitored house arrest on July 14.
- Police set tight conditions for the arrangement, including a fixed residence and movement zone, a ban on drugs and alcohol with random testing, police access to his phone and computer, and mandatory participation in the RISK support program for intimate‑partner violence.
- The move comes after Høiby was convicted in June and sentenced to four years for multiple offences including two rape convictions, but both he and prosecutors have appealed so the verdict is not final; he has been held since February 2.
- The transfer lets Høiby be near his mother as she recovers from a June lung transplant, raises public scrutiny because of the royal connection, and leaves the appeals process and possible changes to his sentence as the next key developments to watch.