According to the Public Prosecution Service (OM), a 52-year-old resident of Uithoorn will be behind bars for sixteen years for killing his ex-girlfriend and dumping her body. Although he was arrested less than a week after her body was found in March last year, he maintained for months that he had nothing to do with her death.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, the suspect staged a major play in the months after her death, in which he kept his deceased ex alive for her relatives. “He lied for a whole world.”
For example, he sent messages to her relatives and friends on her behalf, lied to the gardener about her absence and even sent texts to her phone. “Apparently intended to throw sand in the eyes of others.”
Panic
Only when confronted with evidence months after his first arrest did he admit to being involved in her death. He stated that his 45-year-old ex attacked him during an argument in her house in Apeldoorn had attacked and she was injured during a struggle. When she died on the way to the hospital, he reportedly panicked and decided to dump her body.
The public prosecutor does not believe that, especially because no traces of violence were found in the victim’s home. The Public Prosecution Service believes that he unknowingly overpowered her in her home and then strangled her. He had already placed the back of his van against her garage door, so that he could load her body without being seen.
Palace Het Loo
The suspect maintained for a long time that he had driven to his home in Uithoorn on the evening of March 22, but data from his telephone shows that he first went to Voorst (east of Apeldoorn). From there he drove to Wenum Wiesel, west of Apeldoorn. There he is said to have left the body of his ex near Paleis Het Loo along the road.
Her body is quickly found, but her identity remains a mystery for days. Only after a photo of the woman, exceptionally, is shared with the general public via social media has been sharedthe detectives find out who she is.
Murder
The Public Prosecution Service suspects the man of murder because he acted very calculatingly. Not only in misleading the woman’s relatives, but also in the murder itself. For example, he tried to provide himself with an alibi by scheduling app messages.
And before he committed the murder, according to the Public Prosecution Service, he had had enough time to change his mind. He had to wait an hour and a half for the gardeners to leave. The threatening language he used in text messages to friends also contribute to the belief that the Uithoorn resident did not kill his ex on an impulse.
Parasite
“He clung to her like a parasite and sucked her dry,” said the public prosecutor. “And when nothing came of it, he discarded, murdered and dumped her. As a result, he not only complicated and delayed the investigation, but also caused even more suffering to the surviving relatives.”
In addition to sixteen years in prison, the Public Prosecution Service demands TBS with compulsory treatment ‘to protect society’. Although he did not want to cooperate in a psychological examination, experts from the Pieter Baan Center managed to diagnose him with a personality disorder. According to the officer, it is ‘plausible’ that this disorder played a role in the murder.
The combination of a prison sentence with TBS means that the suspect must first serve the prison sentence and then follow TBS, which can be extended every two years. The court will make its ruling in two weeks.