On October 12, 37-year-old firefighter Pieter Platteeuw brings his wife Dana Van Laeken (36) to the emergency department of AZ Groninge in Kortrijk. After a restaurant visit she had been feeling bad for several weeks, but now she suddenly deteriorated very quickly. Things just go from bad to worse in the hospital. No matter what doctors try, nothing helps. Dana dies after a painful agony and her death goes down in the books as a natural death. But something gnaws at the hospital staff: “She was no longer human,” an employee would later say. The trial against Platteeuw will start tomorrow for the assize court in Bruges. He is on trial for poison murder of his wife.
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ASSISEN. “I hope the stomachache stops”: Pieter (37) sent his wife Dana (36) messages after he poisoned her with ‘miracle beans’
