The 59-year-old Gjert is standing trial on charges of abuse in close relationships against two of his seven children, including 24-year-old Jakob, who won two gold medals over 1,500m and 3,000m at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China at the weekend.

Double Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen described a childhood marked by fear and manipulation when he took the witness stand on Tuesday to testify against his father and former coach. Gjert Ingebrigtsen has pleaded not guilty to charges of physically abusing two of his children,

Jakob Ingebrigtsen describes violent childhood with ‘no free will’ in testimony against father Gjert - Gjert Ingebrigtsen denies physically abusing two of his children, one of whom is double Olympic c