Koetsier disappeared in October at the age of 21 during her internship as a medical student. The Ugandan authorities initially assumed that she was caught by a wild animal. A scenario that later came in loose screws.
Forensic specialists also traveled to the country years ago. The Dutch police, who searched for a drone above the area, is based on a fatal accident.
A forest ranger from the Uganda Wildlife Authority testified that the missing Sophia ‘unusual behavior’ showed during her visit to Kidepo Valley National Park in 2015.
Tour operator without a permit
That was short before the Dutch disappeared, in another National Park: Murchison Falls. Forester Zachary Logwe Oboya was in the witness bank for the police judge, as the second witness of the prosecutor in the case against Michael Kijjambu, who is accused of having operated on as a tour operator without a permit at the time of Koetsiers.
“There were three white ladies and their driver,” said Oboya. He did not know in advance if the man he had in mind is also the man who is on trial. “Now that I have seen him, the image is clear: he is,” the man said convincingly.
According to Boya, a guide was appointed after the group arrived. He remembered that one of the female tourists, later identified as a coachman, behaved unpredictably during their stay.
,, She smoked and drank beer by the campfire, while she played loud music on a small radio. She started to behave strangely. She wanted to kiss one of our guides, but we told her that we didn’t do things like that. She started beating tables, knocking plastic chairs over and pulling grass out of the ground at night, “said Oboya.
He added that her behavior led to concern. When they left, the park staff later reached the news that the Dutch had disappeared in Murchison Falls.
The first witness of the prosecutor also stated earlier that the behavior of the Dutch was alarming. Warnings had been given not to continue the Safari in the nature park and medical intervention had been urged. However, the group continued to Murchison Falls, where Koetsier was last seen.
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The Public Prosecution Service in Uganda claims that guide Kijjambu operated without a valid travel permit and that his actions endangered the lives of his clients. More witnesses are heard this period.
In trade magazine Arts and Auto, mother Marije – who often traveled to the country for her daughter – previously announced that her daughter was struggling with a bipolar vulnerability, for which she took medicines. She criticized the investigation. “There are so many things that are incorrect, the research has been very poor.”
Panties meters high in a tree
Near a river a plastic bottle of Sophia was found the morning after her disappearance. The next day in the neighborhood of fabric of her pants, one of her shoes, a finis and her panties, which hung meters high in a tree. Nothing was found of the younger twenties.
Mother Marije has never given up hope all those years and remains tirelessly looking for her daughter. “I can’t do anything else, doing nothing is not an option.”