1/4 Photo: Rico Vogels/SQ Vision
The house of a family with three children in Valkenswaard was attacked in November last year. There was a window and there were shot balls, weighted with a screw, in the front door and in a frame. The residents were shocked, as it turned out on Friday in the court in Den Bosch.
Nicky L. (35) from Bergeijk confessed to the judges that he had shot at the house. And for the first time it became clear why. The resident of the house once worked for Nicky’s father and after a sick report a conflict arose. According to the family, the former employer now wants to see money.
Threats and harassment
What exactly happened now, never became completely clear on Friday morning. Both parties accuse each other of threats and harassment. According to Nicky, his half -brother at school would be bullied at the hands of the resident of the shot house and Nicky and his father would have recently been threatened by a knife by him.
Nicky came up for himself in court. He found the bullying of his half -brother just as frightening as shooting on a house where a family lives. But the judge pointed out that that is not a justification.
Because of his mild intellectual disability, Nicky was described by the judge as ‘not the smartest’. He chose to express his pent -up anger about the bullying of his half -brother by shooting at the house of his father’s former employee. “That was stupid,” he admitted. But according to him it was an impulsive act.
Extinguished lights and taped license plate
But it does not sound very impulsive to drive with extinguished lights and a taped license plate from Bergeijk to Gagelstraat in Valkenswaard. There he shot with a gas pressure weapon on the house where a window was destroyed and the front door and a frame on the first floor where children slept were hit.
The doorbell camera registered the shelling:
It was striking that Nicky had already taken out a ‘stupid action’ earlier that week by shooting the same gas pressure weapon on his girlfriend. He was angry that she had gambled money again and hit her and gave her a broken ankle by shooting a weighted ball on her.
Nicky will have been in custody for 107 days after the attack in Valkenswaard and the question was whether he would have to go back into the cell. The public prosecutor had a hard time with it, but decided not. He eventually demanded a 240 -day prison sentence of which 133 conditional, so that Nicky no longer has to go back into the cell and can keep his job and his house.
Community service and contact ban
The officer, however, still demanded a 240 -hour community service and a contact ban with the fired family. Also, as far as the officer is concerned, he may no longer be allowed to go to the new municipality where the family has moved after the shelling.
Nicky’s lawyer pointed a lot to the bad role of the opposing party. The resident of the shot house would certainly not be a sweetheart, he argued and pointed to the recent threat with a knife and threatened via SMS and Facebook. But that man is not on trial now, the judge noted. Possibly soon.
The decision in this case is on June 6.