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Sean Ingle

Court urged to jail Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s father for ‘regime of repeated abuse’

Gjert Ingebrigtsen
Gjert Ingebrigtsen is alleged to have physically and mentally abused his children. Photograph: Fredrik Hagen/AP

The father of the Norwegian track and field superstar Jakob Ingebrigtsen should go to prison for two and a half years for “a regime of repeated abuse” that spanned a decade, prosecutors have told a court in Norway.

Summing up the state’s case, the prosecutor Angjerd Kvernenes said that Jakob and his sister, Ingrid, had suffered physical and mental abuse at the hands of their father and former coach, Gjert, which began when Jakob was seven years old.

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