A 46 -year -old man from Helmond goes into jail for nine months because he has robbed a co -room resident of his freedom for almost a day. He also hit the victim (28) with the metal tube of a vacuum cleaner and caused burns in his face with a gas burner. The victim was afraid that his last hours had hit.
The police judge in Den Bosch wanted to impose a ten -month prison sentence on the man, Michael G.. The ‘discount’ was applied because the offenses date from February 2023, so more than two years ago. He must also pay compensation of 3000 euros. The case only served this Friday, partly because an earlier session had been postponed. So it was the ‘highest time’, the judge thought, that there should be clarity.
‘Client was Pislink’
The victim had demanded 5,000 euros. When G. heard this from his lawyer, he became furious. “My client became so pisslink that he decided not to come to the hearing,” his lawyer explained his absence in court. According to her, the victim has been brushed up. Her client had offered him a hiding place in his home on Paterslaan in Helmond. The two know each other from the drug world.
The two lived together for months. Gradually clouded their relationship and at the beginning of February 2023 there was something about G, although the immediate reason remained unclear. At least he got so angry that he was his roommate with duct tape (sturdy adhesive tape) to his wrists, knees and wrists. And it didn’t stay.
G. slumped several times with the metal tube of a vacuum cleaner on the head and upper body of the victim. He also hit him with the flat hand, kicked him and held a gas burner by his hair and eyebrows. The result: his hair caught fire and his eyelashes scored away. His back was fur and blue and on the forehead and his eyes, among other things, ran burns.
Victim was terrified
The victim was afraid that his last hours had hit. It didn’t come that far because at a certain moment he saw a chance to app his sister and girlfriend. His message was so alarming (‘I will be dead in a few hours or days’) that the police were immediately called in.
Agents it was immediately clear that coarse violence had been used. Their statement and that of someone from the neighborhood plus naturally the lecture of the victim were convincingly enough for the police judge as proof. He acknowledged that the investigations into DNA traces and the nature of the injuries could have been better.
That was also one of the grievances of G.’s lawyer. She further said that the burns must have been caused by the victim himself. And that the two were able to get along well with each other.
She was also surprised that a few days after he was hit back, the victim returned to the place where that had happened. According to her, that could not be reconciled with the comment from the victim lawyer that her client was terrified of G. “If you claim that you have been treated so sadistically, then you are not going to look up the perpetrator? He all wants to see money.”