“Crush where denying no longer works”: our expert now that Joeri J. may have to go to assizes after wife Zoë ‘fell’ off a cliff

The Turnhout public prosecutor’s office wants to bring Joeri J. (36) to trial for the murder of his wife Zoë Snoeks (33). He is said to have deliberately pushed her off a cliff in the Ardennes. However, Joeri J. continues to insist that it was an accident. “Is an assize the ideal setting for sudden confessions that reveal ‘the truth’?” writes our assize reporter Erwin Verhoeven, who has been closely following the most important legal cases for years. “In my career spanning 35 years, I rarely saw it in the first few years, but more and more recently. And there is one important reason for that.”

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