MAASTRICHT - "My client will not benefit from spending all this time in pre-trial detention, where he will not be prepared in any way for a return to society," said Van Berge Henegouwen. The lawyer is urging the court of appeal in Den Bosch to handle his client's case "with great priority".In the other three cases, the public prosecutor has appealed because it considers the sentences imposed too low. The two other minor suspects both seventeen were tried under the juvenile criminal law, while prosecutor W. Smits had asked the court to apply the adult criminal law. He maintains that this should be done.
The seventeen-year-old main suspect, who stabbed the victim to death with a knife during a burglary in his home, is also appealing. According to his counsel, S. Weening, it is unfavorable if psychiatric treatment of his client can only be started after the two-year juvenile detention. The only adult suspect of the foursome - a 22-year-old man - received a three-year prison sentence, where Smits had demanded six years.
