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Oslo man admits axeing to death gay love rival

An Italian man has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-boyfriend's new lover with an axe, after ambushing the couple disguised as a woman in a leopard skin coat.

Published: 30 September 2015 12:02 CEST
Oslo man admits axeing to death gay love rival
Gianluca Ros stood waiting in the stairwell of the apartment disguised as a woman. Photo: Norwegian Police

Gianluca Ros, 48, waited in the stairwell of the apartment building, wearing the coat and a blond wig, as his ex-boyfriend returned from a holiday in the Canary Islands with his new boyfriend, Jørn Husby, on 15 November last year.  

He then attacked Husby (40) with an axe, killing him, and then knifed down his 36-year-old ex, who was brought to hospital with life threatening injuries.

The 36-year-old told the court that he had been previously romantically involved with Ros, and that he had become fearful after he began making angry phone calls to him while he was on holiday with Husby.

“Since he was in disguise, I think he was planning the act,” he said, according to Norway's public broadcaster NRK. “I saw a lady in a coat, and I thought that maybe she was lost. Suddenly, she attacked.”

In court on Wednesday, Ros maintained that he did not consider himself to have split up from the 36-year-old, so his lover's decision to go on holiday with someone else had sent him into a rage. 

“I wanted to take my own life, but a voice in my head said 'Why do I have to die alone?'” he told the court. 

Ros' lawyer Stein Viken said that his client, who admits murder, was finding it hard to deal with the crime he had committed.

“He is generally not a criminal. He has ended up in a tragic situation that has a reason that will be revealed to the court. Knowing that he has taken a life, and almost another is eating away at him. It is of course a very hard time for him,” Viken told Norway's TV2 broadcaster.

According to NRK, Ros has previously been convicted of attempted murder in the UK. 
 
The 36-year-old is still suffering trauma from the attack.
 
“He dreads the trial. It will be very tough for him after what he has witnessed and experienced. He looks forward to being finished with the matter,” Birgit Vinnes, the man's lawyer told TV2. 
 
“Physically he is well, but the trauma he has experienced has made him sick, and he has still not fully returned to work,” said Vinnes.

 

 

 

 

 

SPORT

Norwegian police charge Olympic champion’s father for domestic violence

Norwegian police said Monday that Gjert Ingebrigtsen, father and former coach of 1,500m Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, had been charged with domestic violence against a family member.

Published: 29 April 2024 16:41 CEST
Norwegian police charge Olympic champion's father for domestic violence

Jakob Ingebrigtsen and two of his brothers, Henrik and Filip, who are also athletes, shocked Norway last October when they accused their father of being violent.

“We grew up with a very aggressive and authoritarian father, who used physical violence and threats as part of his upbringing,” the brothers wrote in an op-ed for newspaper VG. “We still feel a sense of discomfort and fear that we have felt since childhood,” they added.

Police opened a probe into the abuse claims and on Monday said prosecutors had decided to charge Gjert Ingebrigtsen, 58, with domestic violence against one of his children.

According to a source close to the case, the acts in question do not concern the trio of known athletes but another, younger child.

Over a period of four years, from 2018 to 2022, Gjert Ingebrigtsen allegedly manhandled, insulted, threatened and hit the child in the face with his hand or with a towel.

Responding to questions from AFP, Therese Braut Vage, who led the investigation, would not confirm this account.

Police said they had closed investigations into other events concerning the six other children in the home either due to a lack of evidence or, in one case, because the statute of limitations having expired.

Gjert, who coached Jakob until after the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo — where Jakob won the gold — has always denied the accusations against him.

“As far as the dismissed cases, we agree that there is no evidence to prove that Ingebrigtsen committed any wrongdoing,” his lawyer John Christian Elden told AFP on Monday.

“For the rest, Ingebrigtsen disputes the description of the facts on which the indictment is based — and he therefore does not admit his guilt,” he continued in an email.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen is the most successful of the three brothers, twice winning gold in the world championships 5000m in 2022 and 2023, as well as the Olympic 1500m gold.

The 23-year-old is also preparing for the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.

Henrik, 33, and Filip, 31, were European champions in the 1500m in 2012 and 2016 respectively.

After breaking with his sons, Gjert Ingebrigtsen shocked Norwegian athletics by becoming the trainer of another runner, Narve Gilje Nordas.

The Norwegian Olympic Committee has said that Gjert will not be granted accreditation for the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, as was the case at last year’s World Athletics Championships.

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