A woman was yesterday given a three-month suspended prison sentence at the Reykjavik District Court for breaking her four week-old son’s foot.
The woman was judged to have deliberately twisted the baby’s foot until it broke. She has been ordered to pay ISK 900,000 (USD 7,390) in legal costs and a further ISK 300,000 (USD 2,463) in compensation to her young son, DV reports.
The mother had claimed that her son fell from a changing table and she was lucky to catch him by the foot – but medical experts said the evidence of twisting was not consistent with that explanation.
It came out in the courtroom that the woman has a history of mental difficulties, including mood swings. The boy’s one year-old sister had been treated for five broken bones in her hand several months beforehand, which raised suspicions.
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Reference is made to press releases from 15 March 2019 and 26 September 2019 regarding a ruling of the Icelandic Internal Revenue Board which the Company decided to refer to the Icelandic courts, cf. note 26 in the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements for year 2020.
Today the Company received the judgement of Reykjavik District Court on the matter which ruled against claims made by the Company.
With reference to information previously disclosed this judgement will neither affect the Company’s income statement nor lead to payment, other than payment of ordered litigation cost of EUR 6,600.
Eimskip, as a shipping operator in international markets, disagrees with this judgement and will evaluate whether this case will be referred to the Court of Appeal.
Reykjavik District Court has acquitted the Icelandic state of charges that a man was unlawfully arrested and held in custody for a murder he was later cleared of.
The man filed a case against the state after he was arrested and released. The incident took place in September 2008 when a man was found dead in his flat in central Reykjavik. The police investigation found out that the accused and several other friends had been drinking with the man in his flat two days before his death. The case was first investigated as premeditated murder and then as an assault that led to death. The police found a pullover owned by the accused which DNA evidence suggested had the deceased’s blood on it, as well as that of the accused. He was therefore arrested.
The Lysing finance company has taken a case to the Reykjavik District Court claiming that the interest on foreign currency indexed car loans – which were recently ruled illegal – should be changed to the same as domestic inflation indexed car loans.
The Supreme Court ruling said that foreign car loans are illegal, but the ruling did not say what should take their place. Thousands of loan holders have been struggling under increasing debt burdens as the Icelandic krona collapsed in value following the economic crisis.
Lysing will be hoping to make the most of a bad situation by converting the loans into inflation indexed krona loans, while some loan holders are fighting for interest to be slashed almost entirely and the Central Bank of Iceland is recommending they be changed to reflect its own national interest rates over time.