Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s father charged over threat to ‘beat him to death’

Jakob Ingebrigtsen and his brothers wrote last year that they ‘have grown up with a father who has been very aggressive and controlling’. Photograph: Michael Buholzer/EPA

Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s father will stand trial next year on charges that include abusing the double Olympic ­champion and threatening to “beat ­him to death”.

Ingebrigtsen, who won gold medals over 1500m in Tokyo and 5,000m in Paris, also alleges that his father and former coach, Gjert, “punched and kicked” him over a 10-year period from when he was a schoolboy.