Court urged to jail Ingebrigtsen's father over 'regime of abuse'

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.

- Sean Ingle

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.

In her closing arguments, Kvernenes reminded the court that Jakob, who won the Olympic 1500m title in Tokyo before winning 5,000m gold in Paris, had described how he had been punched and kicked by his father when he was still at primary school.