The 21-year-old Gerard S., who in 2022 in the Breda juvenile prison den Hey-Acker, abused a 19-year-old fellow prisoner and three others, mistreated two employees of the Pi Vught. That became apparent on Monday during a session before the court in Den Bosch.
S. was brought to the airplace by a male and a female guard when he unexpectedly picked up with a frozen bottle. He hit the man on his head and several times on his body. His female colleague jumped S. on his neck, but was thrown on the floor and also beaten. Two other colleagues quickly arrived. They managed to overpower S.. In the meantime, he kicked the male guard on his thigh again.
Gerard S. is known as particularly dangerous and is therefore in a department where he is in contact with anyone and is in his cell 23 hours a day. In addition to the normal agents of the public prosecutor’s office, three PI supervisors had come with him this Monday. They did not lose sight of him in the courtroom for a second. S. sat with handcuffs in the room and those handcuffs were again attached to a thick leather belt around his waist.
He seemed like state enemy number 1, but there is also reason for that. In 2022 he stuck a co-detained death in the Den Hey-Acker youth institution in Breda. And this Monday he stood for the police judge for the abuse of two guards in Vught. But, he said, last January he also saw a chance in his department to stab a co -detainer eleven times with a potato peeler.
Ticking time bomb
Last March, S. was sentenced on appeal to 7 years and 9 months in prison and TBS for the fatal stabbing in the youth prison in Breda. In a special provision, the Court added that S. must accelerate his TBS treatment on 1 May 2026. Because, it is not the question whether S. will use violence again, but when.
And the ticking time bomb, as he was described, it turns out to be agreed. “Just put me in the EBI (ed. Extra secure facility),” he told the judge. “Purely out of protection for myself. If you have a little brain, you can confirm this. Society and MPs would be happy with this.”
Gerard S. thought it was strange that he could get a knife in one of the toughest departments of the Pi Vught. According to him, the PI deliberately withheld this, because otherwise people would be fired. ” “Fortunately, that man survived,” said S. “Otherwise it would have looked very different and that would have become a big business.”
‘Impulsive act’
S. did not want to answer any questions from the judge on Monday and left the defense in the abuse case to his lawyer. He argued for acquittal because S. was in a stressful situation in a psychiatric department and the abuse of the guards was an impulsive act. The female guard himself would have jumped on his back and he had not beaten it, she argued.
The images that were gertoed in the courtroom did not make everything clear either. Due to an open door before the camera, half of the incident was not in the picture. It could be seen that S. walked to a door in the department to go to the airplace. Suddenly he hits a bottle on the guard’s head, but the struggle after that is not visible. Together the incident only lasted briefly.
Judgment of the judge
The police judge laid up in prison for a month and also condemned S. to paying grief money of 400 euros for the male guard and 2000 euros for women. She has had a lot of trouble with the abuse and now also works in a different department.
Whether S. should also be off the month in prison is the question. The Court of Appeal has therefore determined that he will start his TBS treatment accelerated. Before that time, S. will probably also have to appear in court for the stabbing in the PI last January.