Take on a good victim lawyer to demand appropriate compensation. That is the advice that the experienced lawyer Pieter van der Kruijs gives to Quincy, the 23-year-old man from Schijndel who was innocent in a cell for more than three years. Quincy’s ex-lawyer, Kristen Megen-Van Mierlo, thinks the same thing about it. A quick calculation shows that he is entitled to compensation of at least one hundred thousand euros anyway. But according to Megens, money does not reimburse everything: “In this case you only have victims and losers.”
Quincy was arrested in July 2021 and disappeared under lock and key. The young man of just twenty years old was suspected that he had set fire to a house on Planetenlaan in Schijndel in October 2020. He lived there with his parents and two sisters as an adoptive son. Quincy was accused of four -time attempted murder or manslaughter and arson.
In May 2022, eighteen years were demanded at the court in Den Bosch, two weeks later he was sentenced to ten years in prison. Kristen Megens-Van Mierlo appealed on his behalf, because his client could not blame anything in her eyes. At the beginning of this month, the appeal to the Court of Appeal in Den Bosch. The ruling followed a week earlier than normal: manslaughter or arson could not be proven. That meant that Quincy was released.
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Both Pieter van der Kruijs and his colleague Megens speak of a pretty unique issue. According to Van der Kruijs, there is some comparison with a case in which he himself was involved: the so -called Rosmalense flat murder. More than twenty years after a woman was stabbed to death in a hall of her apartment in Rosmalen, his client was acquitted of this murder. “The big difference is that he was not sentenced to prison, but that he was treated in a TBS clinic for fourteen years. The young man from Schijndel was in prison for years. “
Compensation of one hundred thousand euros
“That means that he must be treated for this, I think. And there are material costs that he can claim. Such as work, education and income. I know there is a daily allowance for someone who has been incorrectly stuck. An amount of one hundred euros, I believe, but that money does not outweigh what he had to go through. Also considering his age. ” A daily allowance of one hundred euros for three years is incorrectly detained, therefore, has at least a compensation of one hundred thousand euros.
Nevertheless, Van der Kruijs proposes to look for a good victim lawyer or to request his current counsel, Bas van Faassen, to prepare a solid compensation scheme. Colleague Megens is very tough. “They have three months for it and my ex-client is entitled to it. Incidentally, it goes reasonably well with him and for the time being he does everything on his own. There is no guidance involved. Incidentally, I think this case only has victims and losers. “
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Quincy was arrested in 2021, partly because his former family members were in his direction with an accusing finger. Does it feel like his ex-family, they have no contact with each other anymore, because they have made him so black? Both lawyers don’t see that.
A reopening of the case also seems to be a lovely road. The judgment of the Court states that all five family members could have lit the fire and that the father had burns that contain traces of flammable liquid. “For a reopening you should come up with new evidence,” the lawyers shout in unison. Van der Kruijs: “That is also the same reason why I don’t think Cassation makes sense by the Public Prosecution Service.” Megens: “It will remain one big question mark how the fire was lit and why.”
Images of the house after the fire:
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