After having consensual sex, Høiby is accused of touching the young woman’s genitals while she was unable to object and filming her without her knowledge – a separate charge. As she was prone to insomnia, she had taken sleeping pills that night, she said. In the hours preceding their encounter, he drank alcohol and took ketamine and cocaine, he said. According to the prosecution, the first showed consensual sexual relations between the pair, and the four others the rape of which he is accused. Høiby has repeatedly said during the trial he is “not in the habit of having sex with women who are sleeping”.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 14, 2026 11:34 UTC