Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has appealed his rape conviction and four-year prison sentence in Oslo, just as prosecutors filed their own challenge seeking an even longer jail term, setting up a fresh legal battle over the high-profile case.
Høiby was convicted by an Oslo district court on 15 June of two rape counts, assaulting a former girlfriend and several other offences across a 34-count indictment. He was acquitted of two other rape counts and two alleged breaches of a restraining order, but the court still imposed a sentence that drew immediate attention in Norway and beyond. Prosecutors had asked for seven years and seven months, so the gulf between the two sides is already stark.
