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The father of the Norwegian track and field superstar Jakob Ingebrigtsen should go to prison for two and a half years for \u201ca regime of repeated abuse\u201d that spanned a decade, prosecutors have told a court in Norway.<\/p>\n
Summing up the state\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a> when he was still at primary school.<\/p>\n \u201cJakob has explained about fear, about unpredictability, and about how the repeated blows to his head when he was seven and a half years old have affected him further in his upbringing,\u201d she said. \u201cThe extent has been so great that Jakob has lived under a regime of repeated abuse over time. It has affected him. He has been affected by this continuous insecurity, fear of violence and fear of other offences.\u201d<\/p>\n Kvernenes pointed out that on another occasion Jakob said he had been threatened with being dragged out of a car and beaten to death unless he agreed with Gjert.<\/p>\n