Stan T. was acquitted by the court in Breda on Friday of allegedly ordering a hitman to kill his ex-wife from Tilburg. According to the judge, the Limburger defrauded dozens of people by renting out non-existent holiday homes. Stan T. was sentenced to six years in prison and TBS with compulsory treatment. He got three years in prison.
According to the justice department, Stan T. went to the dark web in April 2021 to look for a hitman. He allegedly offered $5,000 to kill his ex-wife and bring their then seven-month-old son to him. An anonymous tipster informed the American security service FBI.
His ex-wife and her children have been living in fear for more than two years, as was evident from her intense victim statement: “You want the mother of your child dead, the only stable factor in his life, because you are on the run because of your fraud practices.”
Stan T.’s father and his then girlfriend were said to have been aware of his plans. When the FBI sounded the alarm, the suspect had already been on the run for months from the Dutch justice system, which was looking for him in connection with a fraud case. He was arrested in Belgium and later extradited to the Netherlands.
Stan T. called the accusations ‘nonsense’ during his lawsuit. “I’ve never been to the dark web.” According to him, anyone can post such a message. “It came from an anonymous tipster and the murder advertisement is nowhere to be found,” his lawyer argued. T. said that he never wanted his ex dead. “It’s the mother of my child, of course I don’t want her dead.”
Holiday homes
Stan T. was also suspected of defrauding 29 people by renting out holiday homes for a few hundred euros via Facebook. Those houses didn’t exist at all. According to T., his ex-wife was the scammer here. “All the telephones used were in my name. She could not take out subscriptions because she was in debt restructuring.”
His ex previously said in the television program ‘Undercover in the Netherlands’ that she is heavily in debt because he used her bank accounts for all kinds of scams.
To flee
After the breakup, there is constant arguing about contact arrangements with their son. The Tilburg was seriously threatened. Her car’s tires were punctured and later the entire car went up in flames.
When the justice department became aware of the order for the murder-for-hire, the woman from Tilburg had to immediately go into hiding with her children. She has now moved three times. “I live in uncertainty every day, have nightmares every day and want my life back,” she said during the lawsuit.
Long criminal record
According to the Public Prosecution Service, Stan T. is fully accountable, but he does have serious behavioral problems. That is why the public prosecutor also demanded TBS with compulsory treatment. The Limburger’s lawyer believed that there was no fair trial because not everything had been investigated.
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