A man in a recent judgment from Møre and Romsdal District Court is sentenced to prison after he physically and mentally mistreated his cohabitant over a period of almost two years. The judgment states that the woman has lived under a regime characterized by continuous insecurity and fear of violence and other offenses. According to the verdict, the man has both beaten her, threw her into the ground and threatened her in life. In addition, the man is convicted that in one case he has turned his cohabitant on his face and put a syringe of drugs on her to force her into sexual intercourse. The verdict states that the man continued to beat the cohabitant on his face while raping her, even though offended crying and was afraid she would die. Rape in close relationships, where both violence and drugs were used, were placed the greatest emphasis on when the court was to determine the punishment. Hold the woman trapped using a chain for two days. The chain was attached around the throat of the woman and in the wall so that he held her stuck in the bedroom for approx. Two days. While the woman was locked, the man, according to the judgment, has injected drugs into her and completed intercourse. It also says that he has threatened her with various torture methods while she was locked. Eventually, the convicted woman moved to the kitchen, still locked in the wall with a chain, so that she could cook for them. The woman first escaped when the convicted ran out of cigarettes and he brought the woman to a gas station to buy more. There the woman escaped to another car. The driver helped her by calling the police and carrying her to a crisis center. After a stay, she moved back to the cohabitant. In another case, the man must have told the woman that she way calls her children and say goodbye to them because he had acquired two people to kill her. The woman took in at a crisis center a total of three times, and during the third stay she reported the man. Pleaded guilty, but was not believed in the District Court the man is also convicted of having cheated another woman while she was asleep. When the main hearing was held earlier in March, the defendant pleaded not guilty. According to the judgment, he believes that he is exposed to a plot where the offended and several of the witnesses have joined forces to take him. The court did not trust the man’s explanation, and made the offender’s explanation as the basis for the decision. The court believes that the offender’s explanation is supported by witness statements from the accused’s former cohabitants. Two former cohabitants of the man explained in court that they have been in similar events in their cohabitation with the man. – In its sentencing, very serious case emphasizes that violence, abuse and abuse of women in close relationships is a major societal problem and that strong preventive considerations apply in this case. The sentence of 5 years and six months in prison is unanimous. The man should be deducted for 26 days in custody. The prosecutor in the case, Ingvild Thorn Nordheim, is pleased with the verdict. Archive image: Ingvild Thorn Nordheim is a state attorney and believes this is a right judgment. Photo: Silje Thalberg / news – This is a very serious matter. “The verdict is according to claim, so I think it’s a right judgment,” she says. In addition, the man must pay NOK 350,000 in reimbursement compensation. Will appeal the verdict man’s defender, Sol Elden, states that her client will appeal the verdict. Archive image: Sol Elden is a defender for the man and says they want to appeal the verdict. Photo: Viktoria Hellem-Hansen / news-My client did not admit criminal charges for the conditions he is now convicted of. We register that he has not been believed by the district court, but this does not change his position and the judgment will be appealed, Elden writes in an SMS. news has not succeeded in getting a comment from the assistant attorney to the offended woman in the case. Published 14.03.2025, at. 13.09 Updated 14.03.2025, at. 13.36
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