The Guardian reported that Judge Jon Sverdrup Efjestad found Hoiby guilty of two counts of rape, one count of domestic violence and other crimes after a six-week trial. AP and BBC also reported the four-year sentence and two rape convictions. VG reported that the court convicted him of two rapes and intimate-partner abuse and acquitted him of two other rape counts.
The court judgment itself was not located in a public English-language court database during checks for this draft, so the account is based on named court reporting rather than a full written judgment. The court named in the reports is Oslo District Court. No docket number was available in the checked reports.
The Guardian reported that Hoiby faced 40 charges, including rape, assault, breaches of restraining orders, drug offences and driving offences. It reported that he was found guilty of 34 offences and acquitted of two rape counts and two counts of violating a restraining order, with one further restraining-order charge later overturned. This draft does not infer a separate total acquittal count beyond that explicit breakdown.
The sentencing dispute was wider than the final term. The Guardian reported that prosecutors had sought seven years and seven months in prison, while the defence sought acquittal on the rape allegations and a shorter sentence for offences Hoiby had admitted. AP reported that the sentence is not final and that Hoiby can appeal.
The Guardian, VG and BBC now report that the court ordered Hoiby to pay a total of 640,000 Norwegian kroner, about GBP50,000, in compensation to four women including Nora Haukland. The Guardian also reported that the court imposed a two-year restraining order against one victim.