Reporter Saskia Belleman will report live from 13.45 on the requisition via Twitter.
H. has confessed that on 4 May 2019 he killed a 56-year-old woman in the Scheveningse Bosjes in The Hague. Three days later he struck at Brunssummerheide, where he first stabbed a 63-year-old woman to death and a short time later a 68-year-old man. The victims were suddenly attacked and killed with great violence.
The twin sister talked about the close relationship she had with her sister Diny, who was stabbed to death on the Brunssummerheide and the premonition that overtook her on “the pitch-black day May 7, 2019.” “It was around noon. I wasn’t myself, it didn’t feel right. I felt an intense pain that I could not explain and had to throw up. I dropped everything I was doing,” said the twin sister. In the evening she saw images of Brunssummerheide on television and recognized her beloved sister’s dog with a beating heart. “We are left with a great sadness that will not pass.”
‘Professionally angry’
Her victim statement, in which she cursed and called H. a serial killer, was interrupted several times by H.’s lawyers, who felt that she could not use foul words and had no right to directly question H. whether his mother’s role was to be to put in order. The court then adjourned the hearing for fifteen minutes. The incident sparked criticism from victim attorney Phil Boonen. “Intervening in the right to speak is quite something,” said Boonen. “It is the only moment in the process that you as relatives are allowed to say something. The right to speak is also unlimited. It has hit the next of kin very hard. I am professionally angry about that.”
Diny’s husband had brought a photo to the court. “This is the woman you killed. Think carefully about that,” the widower turned to H.
The man from Brunssum was sentenced by the court in Maastricht to eighteen years in prison and TBS with coercion. The relatives hope that the court will also impose a long prison sentence on H.. The Public Prosecution Service will issue the sentence on Tuesday afternoon.