A prison sentence of forty months has been demanded against a 44-year-old man from Emmen for a stabbing incident at a house in Hoogeveen. Ten of the forty months are conditional. The prosecutor found attempted manslaughter proven.
The Emmenaar and his 61-year-old uncle from Hoogeveen, with whom he temporarily stayed due to problems at home, appeared at the door of a house on Wethouder Robaardstraat around one o’clock in early June. “Two idiots in a drunken state, incomprehensible”, the public prosecutor outlined. The resident opened the door and was stabbed almost immediately by the resident of Emmen. The victim fended off and was hit in the arm, causing him to bleed profusely.
The prosecutor suspects that it is about a conflict about messages on Facebook. According to the public prosecutor, it has been established that the forty-year-old called the victim with his uncle’s phone. He had to talk to him a bit and wanted to go. His uncle knew where the man lived and went with him.
The 40-year-old denies that he stabbed. At first he also denied going to the victim’s home, but the journey there and back was recorded by cameras. The resident of Emmen then said that he was attacked at the door with a knife and fended off. The victim then cut herself. The public prosecutor thought that the man was ‘running around the bush’.
The prosecution found it unproven that the uncle knew about a knife he had taken and asked him to be acquitted of complicity. The sixty-year-old was guilty of assault, the public prosecutor said. That evening he had forgotten his house key and asked his neighbor for help. When he didn’t get it, he headbutted him. The uncle denies this.
The prosecutor also demanded treatment for the prime suspect. The Emmenaar’s lawyer proposed to the court to shorten the prison sentence for that reason. The verdict will follow in two weeks.