The public prosecutor progressed a year in prison. The Court of Appeal in Ghent now gives the farmer a heavier penalty of eight months instead of five months. But according to his lawyer, it doesn’t really matter. “Five months or a year, the suffering will not be over. The final settlement will soon be presented at the Court of Assisen.”
What punishment Chris V. will receive for the double murder of his children, we will probably know at the end of this year during the trial for the Court of Assisen.