Norwegian admits to sexual molestation
A Norwegian man was today handed a suspended jail term after he admitted to having physically molested a Maltese woman yesterday.
The case happened at about 5 a.m. in St Julians.
The accused, Atle Ulriksen, 32, who is on holiday, had been watching the Maltese woman and her husband exercising along the seafront. The husband was riding a bike while his wife was walking.
Mr Ulriksen suddenly went up to the woman and grabbed her while her husband was placing his bike on a bike-rack attached to their car.
The woman managed to escape from her burly assailant, but he grabbed her again and groped her. She began screaming and as her husband intervened, she managed to get away again and they drove to a police station to file a report.
Mr Ulriksen was arrested a few minutes later.
In court, Mr Ulriksen admitted to holding the woman against her will, violently and indecently assaulting her and offending public morals.
He was handed a two-year jail term suspended for four years.
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Philip Grech
Sep 23rd 2010, 21:13
Konkluzzjoni: Hawn Malta jaqbillek tkun kollox barra Gharbi. Iswed, jew Kaccatur.
j grech
Sep 23rd 2010, 19:50
did the police or courts get on to the norwegian embassy to see if this man was a kmown sex offender,?they release him back onto the streets to re-offend aqain, have they notified the norwegian embassy or the mans local police station as to the offence he has committed while on holiday here, i very much doubt it as far as they are concerned let that be an end to the matter, now that a woman is out of his reach will he play it safer and try a child next, its countrys like malta who allow the next madaleine to go missing, a maltese man would be in prison for doing that herein malta and abroad, i suggest if a foreign national commits a crime while abroad and is given a prison sentence then the nationals country should foot the bill the same as hospital treatment is charged back to that persons country.
m.zammit
Sep 23rd 2010, 19:43
aw kollox tista taghmel hlief tispara ghal ghasfur jew izzom ghasfur go gagga ghax jigu ftie barranin u jiehdu control tal -pajjiz fidejom .veru pajjiz tal m,mouse xkien jigri li kienet wehida dik il-mara issa ahjar l-anqas tipratika li sport li thob ma tista ghax iduru aghlik.
Joseph Zammit
Sep 23rd 2010, 18:35
As a minimum sentence this GENTLEMAN should have been ordered to pay for the Court's expenses!
C.Portelli
Sep 23rd 2010, 18:01
@C. Farrugia .....loved your comment " Norwegian or Neanderthal" ITS PERFECT ...FITS RIGHT... Reading your comment I smiled lots and ofcourse AGREE 100% !!!! Maybe an insane Neanderthal not even a normal one :)
Agree also with those who said ..." what if it was an african ....a somali nigerian ecc...he would have been sent home immediatly...but maybe law for a Viking is different in malta :)
IF THIS IS JUSTICE ..am lost for words....its so sad but I try to smile since things in this case did not end so bad.....hoping this person will fly away from malta soon since this insane Neanderthal was not sent away immediatly!!!
s.koludrovic
Sep 23rd 2010, 21:22
Sorry to disappoint you mate,but if he was a Nigerian or a somali,he would never be sent back as they do not have a passport and their countries don't seem to want them back.
Adrian Lauri
Sep 23rd 2010, 15:53
It would be interesting to know what if a Maltese man was found guilty of the same crime in his Country (i.e. Norway).. Would it be a ridiculous suspended jail term like commonly practised in Malta ?!!!!
Am I correct assuming this was an attempted rape ? And he was handed a two-year jail term suspended for four years.
Also, this is a very serious case as this could have also led to her huisbanc committing another crime i.e. killing the accused for what i can imagine !
Pfffffff ma nistax nifhem xinhu jigri f'dal pajjiz !!!
c. camilleri
Sep 23rd 2010, 15:50
A suspended sentence to a person who in a couple of days will be out of the Island. Funny isn't?
A revision of our courts' sentences is long overdue but nobody wants to listen. A great apathy exists on the part of our Ministers. Perhaps change is the answer.
Trevor Lorenzo Mizzi
Sep 23rd 2010, 15:50
Suspended sentence !
Place this masher brute in prison to cool his heels for a few months then turf him out as a persona non grata to his land of the fjords after he finishes his prison sentence.
Joe Grima Brussels
Sep 23rd 2010, 15:45
Will some fill-in the blanks for me please??
a) 1 indecent assault=SUSPENDED jail sentence.
b) _ indecent assaults=jail sentence?
WHO will be to be the next victims, and how may of them, before we know the answer to b)?
Stanley Iles
Sep 23rd 2010, 15:30
This sort of behaviour i.e.the do what you want while on holiday in Malta is becoming very common especially if we continue to adopt the go as you please,you will go free attitude in our courts.
J Farrugia
Sep 23rd 2010, 15:02
Why all this trouble to take this pervert to court. A good brushing by the husband would have sufficed. Justice has not been done. Giving them suspended sentences is worth the crime. So take the law into your own hands. That would have given him food for thought. No need to complain to the police. Nothing will materialise as this case amply shows.
Lewis Balzan
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:59
You can almost do anything in Malta these days, knowing that you will end up scot free with a suspended sentence. Who cares about suspended sentences? In this case one week at the Corradino Hilton would have been a much better deterrent and a lesson for him to know what groping is really all about.
Mario Rayner
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:47
I would have put him straight on the next plane back to Norway with a 3 year ban from entering Malta, that would have been very appropriate sentence
Sean Grima
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:42
well, it is usually scandinavian girls who get the attention of maltese men :)
christian gauci
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:41
If this brute was a non-European, he will be jailed. So much for Maltese Justice.
A Sammut
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:34
X'inhi efficenti alla jbierek is-sistema tal-gustizzja ma' xi barrani ghal xi rejat relattivament venjali bhal dan . . . . . imbaghad xi xurban li allegatament jtajjar u joqtol ciklist li kien ghaddej ghal affari tieghu fil-coast road, u jhallih hemm imut mingjhajr lanqas biss jieqaf . . . . dak (ghax Malti?) ma smajniex bi hbaru aktar .... u z-zmien ghaddej, u martu u uliedu jippruvaw kuljum jghixu hajja normali minghajr missierhom l-ghaziz. Ma jghidux li l-ligi ugwali ma' kulhadd ?? Hrafa kbira.
Robert Mallia
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:28
Is this for real? Just a suspended jail term ?!
Gordon Farrugia
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:24
"He was handed a two-year jail term suspended for four years."
what about the trauma the woman suffered?
R Vella
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:23
So one can go about groping women and get a suspended sentence!!
So let me get this straight:
A woman is with her husband, ghal affri taghhom, exercising.
Then a man goes onto her and gropes her.
They do the right thing by not reacting violently to the assault and report it to the police.
Then the sentence is out and the culprit gets a suspended sentence.
In my opinion this sentence is an insult to the couple in question and especially to the wife. And also to women's safety in general. In my opinion this is not a deterrent enough for this occurrence not to happen again.
I finish off with just one question: What would have happened if a Maltese male tourist in Norway groped (or sexually molested) a Norwegian lady? What would the sentence have been?
M Galea
Sep 23rd 2010, 15:28
He didn't get a suspended jail sentence. he got 2yrs suspended to 4.
R Vella
Sep 23rd 2010, 16:56
Thanks M Galea for clarifying. My point was that at the end of the day, once he leaves Malta it's as if he didn't get anything.
M Galea
Sep 23rd 2010, 22:49
wouldn't the police in Norway be notified and aware of this? I assume they must take permission from them in order to keep him in our jail. (my assumptions = guess work and no evidence)
adrian agius
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:23
crazy :-((
can't people like this man be deported immediately?????
b.busuttil
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:16
Just imagine..... if this man was nigerian or from somalia.....
Ruth Mifsud
Sep 23rd 2010, 16:27
I totally agree with you. Was going to comment the same thing!!! An offence is always an offence no matter who does it!!!! and everyone should be punished equally. But this does not exist in our country unfortunately....
Eric Camilleri
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:13
Is this man mentally stable ? To make such brazen advances of such nature on a women who was even in the company of her husband makes one wonder what would have happened had she been alone and how mentally unstable this man must be.
Irrespective of this man being an EU national, why dump him back on the street amongst society ? Who will be his next victim ?
adrian agius
Sep 23rd 2010, 15:32
Norway is not in the EU.
J Abela
Sep 23rd 2010, 15:43
Norway is not an EU country.
C. Farrugia
Sep 23rd 2010, 14:13
Norwegian or Neanderthal?