There are new clues about the place where the body of the Hoorn student Samanta Bansi, who has been missing for four years. Manoj B., the man suspected of killing Sumanta, is said to have confessed where he dumped the body. That writes the Telegraph. Human remains are also said to have been found in the search.
The newspaper, together with B.’s new lawyer, Theo Hiddema, made an urgent appeal to him after four years to open up about what exactly happened and what he did with the body. B. was sentenced to 15 years in prison last summer for the murder of Sumanta, but has always denied having anything to do with it. Sumanta’s body has been missing for four years.
New location
B. would have revealed more during the interrogation this morning. Immediately afterwards, several detectives went to a still unknown place in Hoorn to search. It would be a new location, which has not been searched before.
In recent years, searches have already been made in the De Hulk nature reserve and at the Robbenoordbos, near the Afsluitdijk. That was without result.
The new search would have yielded something. According to Telegraaf crime reporter Mick van Wely, there would be actual human remains have been found. Nothing else is known about that yet.
Later reaction justice
The Public Prosecution Service announces that it will provide a response later today about the new developments in the search for Sumanta. Lawyer Theo Hiddema says that he will also do that later today.