Prosecutors in Norway have detailed four charges of rape against the son of Norway’s crown princess.
A year and a half after Marius Borg Høiby was arrested over a violent episode at a woman’s flat’s in Oslo, he appeared in court to hear all 38 charges he faces and to deny allegations of rape.
His lawyer said he was a young man who deserved a fair trial and the press treatment of him had been anything but normal.
The seven-week trial opened at Oslo district court against a backdrop of almost daily revelations surrounding him and his mother, Crown Princess Mette-Marit.
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