Inga Bejer Engh

Inga Bejer Engh ( born December 31, 1970) is a Norwegian prosecutor.

Career

After studying law in Norway, she worked from 1997 for the United Nations in the field of international law in New York. Before she was appointed at the age of 32 years to the prosecutor, she worked at the court of her home town of Drammen, Oslo at the criminal court and at the police Chamber of Asker and Baerum. Since 2002 she has been a prosecutor in Oslo, it was, inter alia, Prosecutor in the trial of the Norwegian neo-Nazi goals Tvedt, which will be heard in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik as a witness.

She became internationally known through the acquisition of the prosecution in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the attacks in Norway, 2011. The charge against Breivik represents but her nor her colleague Svein Holden. Through their role in cross-examination by the accused she achieved fame far beyond Norway. Since it is controversial to what extent it is justifiable to the victims, to give room for presumptive propaganda to the defendant, was the work of the two prosecutors in this process with a precise and international observation. Engh said to have accepted the case without hesitation.

Private

Engh is married and the mother of two sons, she lives in Drammen.