Overview
- A second accuser testified that she awoke to non-consensual sex after an after-party in the Lofoten Islands on October 8, 2023, describing dissociation and pain.
- The prosecution submitted a five-second clip found on Marius Borg Hoiby's phone and heart-rate data from the woman's fitness watch to support claims she was asleep.
- Hoiby testified that the woman was awake and said he does not have sex with sleeping women, as the defense pressed her on earlier statements to police.
- The case stems from a widened probe after Hoiby's August 4, 2024 arrest, with investigators seizing videos and filing rape charges even where women had not done so.
- Hoiby faces 38 counts, including four alleged rapes, with a maximum penalty of up to 16 years if convicted on the gravest charges, and the royal household has declined to attend.