A 21-year-old man from Hoogeveen has been sentenced to a 100-hour community service and six months of conditional juvenile detention for the attacker of his father. Attempted manslaughter has been proven in this case.
The conflict between the suspect, his family and two acquaintances preceded threats via social media. The parties also reported back and forth. This came to a climax in the Albert Steenbergenstraat in Hoogeveen last year last year. The suspect drove into the street and saw that his father was being attacked.
The fear overtaken the suspect, his father had shortly before undergone an open heart surgery. He thought his father would not survive the blows. In a haze he sent his car to the attacker. He tumbled over the hood of the car. The victim immediately got up again. The suspect grabbed a knife from the car and ran towards him.
He stuck his father’s attacker twice in the belly. This could have ended deadly. The victim was lucky that he had so much belly fat. The knife got stuck in it. The judge believes that the suspect can only be punished for the attempted manslaughter with the knife. The attack by car could only have caused serious physical injury.
But because the man drove into the other in blind panic to save his father, this is a stir. The attempt at severe abuse is therefore not punishable and does not follow a punishment for this part. The Hoogeveener gets youth detention because the judge believes that a pedagogical approach is needed because of his youthful development. The final punishment is slightly lower than what the Public Prosecution Service had in mind.