ASSIS. After ten years, the accused maintains his innocence for fatal date with café owner David Paul (41): “Only when I saw his blue lips did I panic” | Lommel

At the start of his interrogation before the assize court in Tongeren, team leader Tom E. (40) almost seemed like the ideal son-in-law. A hard worker, who after eleven years is even engaged to his girlfriend, who “supports him through thick and thin”. Until the fatal date with catering boss David Paul (41) in the rendezvous hotel Casa-Blanca came up. Afterwards his memory faltered several times and he often remained at a loss. “How did those signs of violence in the neck get there? I may have checked his heart rate too harshly.”