00:00The stepson of Norway's Crown Prince HĂĽkon was found guilty on Monday of rape and domestic violence.
00:08Marius Borg Hojby was sentenced to four years in prison,
00:11in a verdict that has further dented the royal family's once unblemished image.
00:16An Oslo court ruled the 29-year-old was guilty of two counts of rape,
00:21including one in the basement of the Crown Prince's home.
00:24He was acquitted of two other rape charges.
00:27Prosecutors said that the four women accusing him of rape,
00:31in both the proven and unproven cases,
00:33had each time been too unconscious or too incapacitated to resist him after attending parties.
00:39During the seven-week trial, the court also heard evidence of Hojby's drug addiction
00:43and self-made videos of sexual encounters.
00:46It also heard evidence of assault,
00:49including him hitting a former partner in the face and choking her.
00:53Hojby joined the royal family when his mother,
00:56Meta Marit, married HĂĽkon in 2001.
00:59Political expert Ketil Racknes said his trial has come at a difficult time for the royal family.
01:05The trial with Marius and his arrest came first,
01:09and then the Epstein files came to Norway,
01:12and Meta Marit was involved in those files and got criticised for having contact with Epstein.
01:17So it was kind of a perfect crisis for the royal family,
01:20because they had like two crises at the same time,
01:23and they had a lot of critique for the way they handled the Epstein files.
01:27The royal household, which has in the past expressed sympathy for all those affected by the case,
01:32declined to react to Monday's verdict.
01:34The royal household, which has in the past,
01:38that Alec Marit was a positive person to break over the last day,
01:41but also revisiled goin'at for the trial.
01:45The royal household, which has a bad finding forullen,
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