In the statement he tells, among other things, of the months in which he claims to have been poisoned: from May to October 2022.
The Supreme Court justice has been making headlines since November, when an article was published in which Skoghøy claims he was poisoned by his Ukrainian ex-wife Nataliia Skoghøy.
She vehemently denies the claim.
– My client made it clear to the media that she did not poison her husband in any way, nor did she have any wishes for it, her lawyer Musharraf Ashraf tells Dagbladet.
The Supreme Court judge, for his part, supports the allegations.
He rejects the accusations: – Shocked
On December 23, Supreme Court Justice Toril Marie Øie, head of Skoghøy, asked the Judges’ Supervisory Committee to evaluate his behavior. In the investigation, Øie points out that “several questions were asked about the compatibility of his behavior and his statements in this regard with being a Supreme Court judge”.
– He wasn’t a judge
It also references a notification case against Skoghøy in 2020. The notification came from a female student while she was a professor at the University of Tromsø. It ended with the University giving Skoghøy a warning.
“At that time I was not a judge. You cannot violate the official duties of a judge or act contrary to good judicial etiquette without being a judge,” he writes in a broader explanation of why he believes the notice is not relevant to the oversight committee.
He therefore believes that the preliminary investigation relating to this notification case must be “clearly rejected”.
Furthermore, it goes into detail about the months that preceded the hospitalization, which allegedly took place on October 18th. Skoghøy must have noticed a tight balance in May, but he didn’t understand the gravity of it.
The leave ends in two weeks
“By the end of June, justices and other Supreme Court employees had experienced a change in personality. From what I’ve been informed, there has been a particular reaction to impaired balance, slurred speech, and the fact that I kept forgetting the codes,” he writes.
Often writes that Judge Øie does not want to comment on Skoghøy’s claims in the letter.
“It is not fair for us as employers to comment on health information,” writes Ida Dahl Nilssen, information officer at the Supreme Court, in an email to Aftenposten.
– Good descent
Furthermore, Skoghøy claims that the Supreme Court justice ordered a doctor’s appointment for him, but that nothing abnormal was then discovered. After returning from vacation in mid-August, it gradually got worse, he says. Gradually he worked more from home.
“Then it really went downhill for me,” she says.
From mid-September to October 18 – the date on which he was allegedly hospitalized – he only remembers fragments, he writes in his reply to the Supervisory Committee.
This is Supreme Court Justice Jens E. Skoghøy
“Most of it has been erased from my memory,” writes Skoghøy.
Skoghøy did not want to share the hospital records with Dagbladet. The information you provide is therefore not confirmed.
In the time before he was admitted to Ullevål on October 18, according to the Supreme Court judge, there were three incidents where he was found in a helpless state outdoors at night, unable to remember anything.
Once outside the Opera in central Oslo, the other at Hauketo train station, he writes in the release. None of these should have led to hospitalization, he further explains.
– He was admitted to the emergency room
The last of three such episodes must have been on October 18th. He was then, according to himself, found by a random passerby on a sidewalk in central Oslo, in what he himself describes as “in very poor condition and unable to walk”.
“I don’t remember anything about the episode, nor do I know how I got to central Oslo. Those who found me called an ambulance and I was rushed to Ullevål hospital,” he writes.
Disputes in the legal community: – Not a popularity contest
Skoghøy also writes that it took two days before he was able to walk again. He claims that benzodiazepines were found in his blood and urine, without it being clarified exactly what substance he was given.
– We do not want to comment on the more detailed allegations that she poisoned him with specific substances at this time, his wife Musharraf Ashraf’s lawyer tells Dagbladet, adding:
– At the same time, she clearly ruled out all attempts to poison him.
– Deeply depressed
He has always maintained that he did not want to go out with the case in the media, but that he did it to deny the dementia rumors, which he believed were spreading. He also states this in the statement.
After her release from the hospital, she experienced several withdrawal issues, she says. Additionally, he writes in the statement that he was distraught at being subjected to what he calls attempted murder by his spouse.
– He may be incompetent
Dagbladet has already discussed the anti-Ukrainian messages Skoghøy sent to his ex-wife. In his declaration to the Supervisory Body, he explains that messages must be seen in the context in which they were made.
“The statements were made in a private message and in a situation where I was not fully healed and was deeply depressed about what had happened. I can barely see that the statements in the context they were made could be construed as a violation of good judicial practice,” Skoghøy points out.
Here you will find all of Dagbladet’s articles on the Skoghøy case.
