The man himself denied that he shot her. He stated at the court in Breda that the woman suddenly stood behind him with a gun pointed at him. She would have that in the house in connection with threats from an ex of hers. In the skirmish that ensued, the gun allegedly went off accidentally. The woman died from a gunshot under the left eye and under her ear.
The prosecutor had taken the murder weapon to the courtroom. She showed how that should have gone and explained that the woman could not have fired the shots. Her conclusion: “He waited for her, took her home and shot her in cold blood according to his own devised plan at close range fairly soon after arrival.”
stormy relationship
The two had a stormy relationship with each other. They had argued a lot in the weeks before the murder. He had threatened her 44 times, she threatened him once. The court quoted from heated email exchanges between the two. A day before the murder, she had emailed that the relationship was really over: “It’s over now.” “Enjoy your life for a while, because that will stop. The day I see you, there are holes in your head,” he emailed back. “I made a choice, it will happen. Seriously, I won’t let you breathe when I see you.”
After those threats, Kempinska went to her house. R. was there too. The two were inside the flat for 36 minutes. Then R. left the house again, with Kempinska’s two children in the buggy. The man was arrested that afternoon in a park in Dordrecht, after he had called 112 himself.