Ex-minister’s partner guilty as charged
January 15, 2021
The long-time live-in partner of former Justice Minister Tor Mikkel Wara was found guilty on Friday of making repeated and false threats, not only against him but also against two of his political colleagues in the conservative Progress Party. The Oslo County Court equated Laila Bertheussen’s offenses, which she also tried to pin on others, as an attack on democracy, and sentenced her to one year and eight months in jail.
Tor Mikkel Wara of the Progress Party had to resign as Norway’s justice minister in charge of the police and the courts, when his own live-in partner, Laila Bertheussen, was charged with making false threats against him and other top politicians including one of Wara’s fellow ministers. Bertheussen, who has refused to allow her photo to be taken in court, was convicted and sentenced on Friday to 20 months in jail for plotting and carrying out what the court equated to an “attack on democracy.” PHOTO: Statsministerens kontor