After a lot of fights and violence, a poisonous relationship of 3.5 years ended with a hefty collision in Den Bosch. Guido de K. (50) demanded a conversation with his ex and drove her when the woman walked behind his car. Guido has been stuck for almost eight months after the incident and if it is up to the judiciary, there will be another ten months.
On Tuesday, the public prosecutor focused on eighteen months in prison for Guido de K. He joined the parking lot in front of her house in Den Bosch on 25 January. On images in court it was shown how the woman parks her car and how Guido arrives a little later.
When the woman sees him, she walks past the electric BMW IX1 to cross to her house. Guido quickly puts his car in reverse and knocks the woman down. After the blow, where the woman leaves bruises and a bruise, Guido drives away and leaves the woman on the street.
Car used as a weapon
And that is why Guido now has an attempted manslaughter on his pants and he has been detained since the end of January. Guido does not agree with it at all, but the public prosecutor thinks he used his heavy electric car as a weapon.
In the court there was a discussion about how many meters the woman would have been dragged along. According to Guido’s lawyer, the woman was hit and cases and certainly not dragged along. “Then she should have much more injury,” he argued.
But the public prosecutor maintained the police report stating that the woman was dragged in nine meters, exactly three times the width of a parking space, so was calculated. But the lawyer again called that calculation ‘office-in-law’.
Reports, contact prohibition and conditional prison sentence
But that wasn’t really what it was all about, of course. It was also about the misery that the two former lovers had with each other before the collision. There had been reports to the police before and Guido had previously received a contact ban and a conditional prison sentence of a week after he had beaten his wife.
In the week before the collision, everything had happened, it turned out. The woman wanted to stop the relationship and blocked Guido’s number. He didn’t pick that and demanded a conversation. For days he followed his ex to work or suddenly appeared at her house. He would also have tried to push her off the road near the Jeroen Bosch Hospital with his father’s car.
‘Spiral of violence’
The collision of his ex was the final piece, because then Guido was arrested. And so the ‘spiral of violence’ came to an end, as the quarrels between the two exes were characterized. And according to Guido’s lawyer, this spiral ended with a collision that really cannot be qualified as an attempted manslaughter. “That goes too far,” he thought.
The lawyer asked for acquittal for attempted manslaughter. And if there is mistreatment left in the judgment, then there is no more prison sentence than the almost eight months that Guido is already stuck. And so the lawyer asked to release Guido immediately.
The public prosecutor remained at her position. She took the violence against the woman high and wondered when a no of a woman is enough. “He can’t say that,” she concluded on the basis of his many attempts to speak the woman.
In addition to the eighteen months in prison, she also demanded a contact ban with the woman and her two daughters. The man should also not be in Den Bosch for three years. In addition, he must hand in his driver’s license for eighteen months in terms of the judiciary.
The decision in this case is on September 23.