Man convicted of killing Colombian girlfriend in Wassenaar hotel; 10 years in prison
NL TimesThe District Court of The Hague convicted 33-year-old Thanasis K. in the murder of his girlfriend, 40-year-old Colombian woman Briza Garces Florez. One guest at the Van der Valk Hotel in the city said he though he saw the victim and suspect involved in an altercation in the hotel’s parking lot the night before. K. claimed self-defense, saying that he choked Garces Florez, a transgender sex worker, because she wanted to stab K. "Something may have broken in her neck," K. admitted during a preliminary court hearing. The court does not follow counsel's defense that the victim died from an overdose of cocaine.” When announcing the verdict, the court reprimanded K. for not accepting responsibility for the woman’s death, and his attempt to delay the discovery of the dead woman.
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