Stepson of Norway's crown prince given four years' prison for rape

OSLO, June 15 (Reuters): The stepson of Norway's Crown Prince Haakon was found guilty on Monday of rape and domestic violence and sentenced to four years in prison after a seven-week trial that has further dented the royal family's once picture-perfect image.
Oslo District Court ruled that 29-year-old Marius Borg Hoiby, who joined the royal family when his mother Mette-Marit married Haakon in 2001, was guilty of two counts of rape including one in the basement of the crown prince's home.
He was acquitted of two other rape charges.
Hoiby, nicknamed "Little Marius" since being the blond, blue-eyed four-year-old attending the royal wedding, was found guilty of 34 of 40 charges, including domestic violence against a then-girlfriend and drug possession and supply.
The court heard evidence of Hoiby's drug addiction, self-made videos of sexual encounters, and hundreds of incriminating electronic messages with ex-partners.
Prosecutors, who had sought seven years and seven months in jail, said that the four women accusing him of rape, in both the proven and unproven cases, had each time been too unconscious or too incapacitated to resist him after attending parties.
"The court finds it is proven she was not able to resist the action," judge Jon Sverdrup Efjestad said of the rape at the crown prince's home, while reading the unanimous verdict by the three-judge court.
Hoiby had pleaded not guilty to the most serious accusations against him.