Police commissioner risks a one-year suspended prison sentence for stalking

The public prosecutor requested a suspended prison sentence of one year.

Relationship breakdown

The defendant could not accept the fact that his girlfriend chose another man in November 2020 after a relationship of about five years. D. then started harassing the woman. According to the Public Prosecution Service, her children were also approached.

“My client just wanted it to stop, but it just kept going,” master Koen Huys pleaded. The commissioner also misused the police databases and the national register on several occasions.

The victim eventually went to the police in August 2021. The defendant indicated in two interrogations that the many encounters were actually purely coincidental. His chief of police had meanwhile decided to take away his weapon. However, when the facts persisted, he was brought before the investigating judge at the end of March 2022. “He admits that he has an obsession,” said prosecutor Fien Maddens.

D. was released conditionally by the investigating judge and has since received psychological guidance. The defense discussed the course of the relationship in great detail.

“Making life miserable”

According to master Dirk Vandamme, the police spokesperson and his girlfriend were supposed to get married in the summer of 2020, but corona put a stop to that. “In fact, she already entered into a sexual relationship with her head of department in March 2020,” it also said.

The victim is said to have only left D. when her new boyfriend was thrown out by his wife. Remarkably, D. and that woman then started working together to make their ex-partners’ lives miserable.

She received a suspension of sentence from the council chamber.

Master Vandamme asked that the suspension be pronounced for his client as well. Reference was made to the serious consequences on a professional level. “He may also have himself to blame for that, because they had to lead him before he started to listen a little,” the judge responded.

The court will make its ruling on October 9.