Job Knoester is considering no longer speaking to journalists from Hart van Nederland as a lawyer. The VI-ster believes that the program reports too one-sidedly. “I’m annoyed, yes.”
31-year-old Jesse R. beheaded his mother in Hellevoetsluis last year. According to his lawyer Job Knoester, this man was in a psychosis at the time of the act and he finds it ‘terrible what happened’. There are now developments in the case. “You are angry with Hart van Nederland, I understood,” Wilfred Genee explains to him VI.
Job is angry
Job more or less confirms his anger. “Oh, well, angry. Yes, indeed. Well, I was irritated, yes, because they reported on the trial where I attended today, by Jesse R. Then you are also interviewed and then I see the first item in the early broadcast and then I actually see a completely one-sided story, full of emotion.”
He continues: “I think it’s fine that a report is being made, but make sure it’s a balanced report. Jesse killed his mother in a very nasty way. He beheaded her. That’s what the hearing was about today. What has been established by experts from the Pieter Baan Center is that he acted out of a psychosis.”
Own world
That psychosis controlled Jesse’s entire actions, according to the ob. “As a result, the judge was advised not to hold him accountable for what he did. That advice was adopted by the public prosecutor and by me as his lawyer. The court will rule on this in April.”
“People in psychosis are in their own world. At a certain point you come out of it and then you realize what you have done. That is the biggest challenge for him now. He has to live with that for the rest of his life and relate to his father. He still has contact with him. That seems like an incredible task to me.”
Peppered
It bothers Job that Hart reports about it in a sensational way. “I think that when you report, you should report in a balanced way and tell all the stories, not just one story. The story was peppered with the argument of a man who had lost his partner, and that is important, but there is more to such a story.”
Johan Derksen believes that Job should also think about who he is speaking to. “Yes, but you know that when you go into those kinds of programs… That’s entertainment, that’s fleeting.”
Job: “Yes, that’s what it looked like, yes.”
Boycott
Johan thinks that Job should not talk to Hart van Nederland anymore. “Maybe you shouldn’t comment there and be a little more selective in the programs.”
Job is seriously considering that. “Well, if they do it this way, then I’m going to pass it up next time, yes. Definitely.”
Wilfed: “They cut you out of the item, right?”
Job: “At least in the early item, yes. It’s not necessarily about me being in it, but I do think that if you tell a story, you should let all parties involved have their say.”
Kerkrade
René van der Gijp thinks that Job is making it too big. “Maybe it is true, Job, very often, that you think so, but someone in Kerkrade who is looking at it thinks: yes, fine. You are involved.”
Job: “What you are saying now is exactly the problem. I think you should therefore give people the whole picture.”
René: “Yes, but are people in Kerkrade waiting for the whole picture? Isn’t that always a fleeting thing?”
Johan: “The whole of the Netherlands has read it in the newspaper that that boy beheaded his mother, so they see that as a very serious and serious crime, of course, don’t they, the people.”
Job concludes: “It is also very tough, for sure.”