Photographer at centre of Nobel row jailed for rape

The French photographer at the centre of the scandal that postponed this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature has been sentenced to two years in prison for rape by a court in Stockholm.

Jean-claude Arnault, who is married to the poet Katarina Frostenson, a member of the body that awards the prize, received the minimum sentence possible for rape under Swedish law after he was found guilty of the first of two charges.

“The woman’s account has been both detailed and extremely plausible,” Judge Gudrun Antemar said in a press conference after she handed down the judgment. “It was supported by six different witnesses.”

Arnault’s lawyer has said that he will appeal.