No prison time for 91-year-old Amsterdammer convicted of stabbing wife to death
5 days, 18 hours ago

No prison time for 91-year-old Amsterdammer convicted of stabbing wife to death

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A 91-year-old Amsterdam man who fatally stabbed his wife and set their home on fire earlier this year will not face prison time. The District Court of Amsterdam ruled Monday that Jan van B., who suffers from dementia and psychotic delusions, is not criminally responsible for his actions. Psychological evaluations revealed that Van B. suffers from early-stage dementia and a psychotic delusional disorder, particularly involving paranoid beliefs about his wife’s fidelity. The District Court concluded that Van B.’s actions, while proven, could not be attributed to him in a legal sense. While Van B. will not serve a prison sentence, the court issued a compulsory care order under the Dutch “Wet zorg en dwang,” which governs the forced placement of individuals with psychogeriatric conditions.

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Suspect arrested for fatal stabbing on Amsterdam street
1 week, 4 days ago

Suspect arrested for fatal stabbing on Amsterdam street

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The police arrested a suspect in connection with a fatal incident on Pontanusstraat in Amsterdam-Oost on Sunday. The Amsterdam police responded to Pontanusstraat in the Oost district at around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 8, after a report of an injured man on the street. The suspect, a 38-year-old man from Amsterdam, was arrested on Wednesday evening after a “thorough” …

Suspect convicted in 2023 fatal machete stabbing in Rotterdam city center
1 month ago

Suspect convicted in 2023 fatal machete stabbing in Rotterdam city center

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The District Court in Rotterdam convicted 20-year-old Tashyke L. from Spijkenisse in the slaying of 22-year-old Richairo Mariën from Helmond. L. was accused of attacking the victim with a machete on March 29, 2023, on the Korte Lijnbaan in the city center of Rotterdam. The court convicted L. on Wednesday, and sentenced him to eight years in prison, and mandatory …

Man held in Amsterdam woman’s stabbing also accused of setting her home on fire
1 year, 1 month ago

Man held in Amsterdam woman’s stabbing also accused of setting her home on fire

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A 53-year-old man was arrested in Amsterdam on Thursday morning on suspicion of stabbing a woman and setting the house where she was staying on fire on Meterorenweg in Amsterdam-Noord on Monday, the police reported. Aanhouding verdachte voor steken vrouw en brandstichting Meteorenweghttps://t.co/8arsb28siL pic.twitter.com/GwLcHSxzpF — Politie Eenheid Amsterdam November 9, 2023 On the night of Sunday to Monday, a woman …

Man dies after stabbing in Amsterdam; one injured after stabbing in Ter Apel
1 year, 1 month ago

Man dies after stabbing in Amsterdam; one injured after stabbing in Ter Apel

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A man died after getting seriously injured in a stabbing in Hazelaarstraat in Amsterdam-Noord on Saturday. On Saturday around 11.45 a.m., the police received reports about a stabbing incident. Kort daarna troffen agenten ter plaatse op straat een zeer zwaargewonde man aan. Hij moest gereanimeerd worden en is… pic.twitter.com/FGxmZ1iuhx — Politie Eenheid Amsterdam October 28, 2023 In another incident, a …

Suspect held over Amsterdam stabbing that left woman lying in a pool of blood
1 year, 2 months ago

Suspect held over Amsterdam stabbing that left woman lying in a pool of blood

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Police in Amsterdam arrested a 22-year-old man over the weekend in connection with two separate stabbings that took place in the city center last month. Het steekincident vond vannacht om 3.14 uur plaats in de #Warmoesstraat thv Lange Niezel. #PD afgezet pol onderzoek pic.twitter.com/hLyyMAZcT2 — Martin Damen September 7, 2023 Less than a week earlier, a man was also stabbed …

Defense pleads manslaughter, not murder, in double killings by couple
1 year, 2 months ago

Defense pleads manslaughter, not murder, in double killings by couple

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Bill C. and Sharona de J. did not have a premeditated plan to kill 70-year-old businessman Willem van der Willigen in Lieshout and 65-year-old Benito van Ommeren in Amsterdam in Spring 2021, according to their lawyers in their defense closing argument. Bill C.'s lawyer asked the Den Bosch court to acquit him of murder charges twice and instead convict him …

Escaped prisoner suspected of stabbing ex in Soest sent for psychiatric evaluation
1 year, 9 months ago

Escaped prisoner suspected of stabbing ex in Soest sent for psychiatric evaluation

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Psychiatric prisoner Kendrick M., who is suspected of stabbing a 27-year-old woman in Soest at the end of November after he escaped from the Pompekliniek in Nijmegen, will undergo an examination by a psychologist and a psychiatrist. He allegedly stabbed the woman from Soest multiple times later that day. The defense attorney called it “amazing that it should take so …

Suspect accused of escaping institution, stabbing ex-girlfriend to remain in jail for now
2 years ago

Suspect accused of escaping institution, stabbing ex-girlfriend to remain in jail for now

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The pre-trial detention of the 31-year-old man accused of escaping from the custody of a forensic psychiatric institution last week, and then stabbing a 27-year-old woman in Soest, was ordered to remain in jail for at least 14 more days. In a hearing on Monday, the examining magistrate at the district court in the central Netherlands region heard investigators’ details …

Woman in her twenties found stabbed in Amsterdam domestic violence case
2 years, 3 months ago

Woman in her twenties found stabbed in Amsterdam domestic violence case

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An investigation into the Wednesday afternoon stabbing of a woman in Amsterdam was still ongoing a day later. The woman was stabbed in or close to a residential building on Govert Flinckstraat at about 12:45 p.m. Police officers, ambulances, and a trauma team in a helicopter were dispatched to the scene shortly after the incident. One male suspect was arrested …

Prosecutors want to reverse conviction in decades-old murder
2 years, 4 months ago

Prosecutors want to reverse conviction in decades-old murder

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The Public Prosecution Service has recommended that the man convicted of killing Regie van den Hoogen in a Rosmalen apartment in 2000 be acquitted of the crime during proceedings on Monday. A district court and then later the Court of Appeal in Den Bosch nevertheless found the evidence against B. convincing, and convicted him of manslaughter. If the court acquits …

Suspect asks for life in prison for girlfriend's murder
2 years, 4 months ago

Suspect asks for life in prison for girlfriend's murder

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A man from Eindhoven asked that he be sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend at a bed and breakfast in Valkenswaard. “If he doesn’t get a life sentence, he wants one,” his lawyer said at a preliminary hearing in Den Bosch on Friday, Omroep Brabant reports. The 46-year-old man stabbed the 33-year-old woman from Eindhoven …

Dutch man gets life in Belgium for four murders
2 years, 7 months ago

Dutch man gets life in Belgium for four murders

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A jury in the West Flanders region of Belgium has sentenced a 29-year-old Dutch man to life imprisonment, and ten years in a psychiatric institution, for the 2017 murder of his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend, her grandparents, and a photographer for whom the then young woman sometimes modeled. The next day he also stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Maïlys Descamps, in her home in …

De Pijp stabbing suspect showed 'disturbed behaviour': eyewitnesses
3 years, 7 months ago

De Pijp stabbing suspect showed 'disturbed behaviour': eyewitnesses

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The man who died in Friday night’s attacks in the Amsterdam district of De Pijp was a 64-year-old local, police said on Saturday. The 29-year-old man arrested in connection with the stabbing is not ‘known to the police’, the Amsterdam force said in a statement. He was hit in several places.’ Another eyewitness told the AD he had seen a …

Witnesses of fatal stabbing in Amsterdam said suspect behaved disturbed
3 years, 7 months ago

Witnesses of fatal stabbing in Amsterdam said suspect behaved disturbed

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Several witnesses to the knifing of five people in Amsterdam on Friday night reported that the 29-year-old suspect from Amstelveen behaved disturbed. Four people were injured in the violent crime and a 64-year-old man from Amsterdam succumbed to his wounds at the scene of the crime. “Precisely because it is usually a peaceful neighborhood.” One man who works in De …

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