Sexual crimes|The defense lawyer of the previously resigned Nygård tried to negotiate the remaining prison sentence to less than two years. More than 120 women have accused Nygård of rape and other sexual crimes.
Canadian Finn former fashion millionaire Peter Nygaard has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for sexual crimes against four women. The sentence was handed down in a trial held in Toronto, Canada, on Monday.
He has 6.7 years remaining in prison after the days of imprisonment previously served. It is possible for Nygård to apply for parole for the first time in 27 months, i.e. after he has served a third of his sentence.
This is the first criminal conviction for the 83-year-old Nygård, who has been accused in several different lawsuits of raping dozens of women over a period of about half a century.
Born in Helsinki, Nygård moved with his parents to Canada when he was about ten years old, where he founded a fashion business that grew to be worth hundreds of millions of euros as an adult.
Judge Robert Goldstein asked Nygård at the start of the trial if Nygård wanted to say anything before hearing his verdict.
“Well, sir,” Nygård replied in a low voice.
Peter Nygård in 1988.
Nygårdin was stated in November last year having committed sexual crimes against four women, including rape, which took place between the end of the 1980s and the mid-2000s. He was acquitted of one charge of sexual crime and deprivation of liberty.
On Monday, the judge told about the experiences of each of the four women as victims of Nygård’s crimes. One woman, for example, had said that she resisted Nygård when Nygård started raping her.
“Don’t bother acting like a silly little girl. Your mother would be ashamed of you,” Nygård had told the woman, according to the judge.
The woman told her mother about what happened. The mother told her daughter that she should not go to the police because Nygård is an influential and rich man. The daughter listened to her mother’s advice.
Another victim said he suffered from anxiety and depression for years. The woman said that she lived in fear until the day that Nygård was arrested and imprisoned.
Nygård was arrested in December 2020 for extradition proceedings following a criminal case in the United States.
One of the women raped by Nygård was 16 years old at the time of the crime. According to Judge Goldstein, Nygård had spoken disparagingly to his victims during and after the rapes.
“He humiliated and belittled his victims,” Goldstein said.
Prosecutor by Nygård could have been sentenced to 19 years based on Toronto’s criminal record, but the prosecutor reduced the sentence to 15 years citing Nygård’s old age and poor health.
Nygård’s defense, on the other hand, tried to negotiate the remaining prison sentence to less than two years. According to the defense, the appropriate sentence for Nygård would have been a total of 8.5 years in prison for the four crimes, and it should have been reduced to a total sentence of six years.
According to the defense, the 50 months Nygård already spent in prison would have been deducted from the six years, in which case the length of the remaining sentence would have been less than two years.
of Ontario in addition to the court case in the provincial capital, Toronto, similar charges have been brought against Nygård in the provinces of Quebec and Manitoba.
Nygårdia in the USA be blamed in the extensive criminal case filed by the federal government in New York, for example, on human trafficking. Canada arrested Nygård in December 2020 after the United States demanded his extradition to the country for trial. The extradition process was interrupted when Canada launched its own lawsuits against Nygård.
In addition to the criminal cases, an extensive civil class action has been filed against Nygård in New York, in which more than 120 women from several different countries have accused Nygård of rape and other sexual crimes, the lawyers in the case have told HS. Some of the women in the class action were between 14 and 15 years old when the alleged crimes took place.
HS has interviewed one Finnish woman, according to whom Nygård raped her in Helsinki when she was a 17-year-old high school student. Nygård has not responded to numerous HS interview requests over the past four and a half years. His representatives previously assured Nygård’s innocence, but they too have stopped responding to inquiries.
In February 2020 raised, originally a class action by ten women launched Nygård’s alley-oop in front of US and Canadian authorities. His businesses focused on women’s fashion collapsed when partners and customers left.
In May of last year, a New York judge ordered Nygård to pay 203 million dollars in compensation American billionaire by Louis Bacon in a defamation lawsuit related to the painting.
In recent years, Nygård had an estimated 750 million euros valuable property. It is unclear what is left of it and who will manage any remaining money.
Peter Nygård’s visit to Finland was reported in the press in October 1987.
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