The February discovery of two phones and a quantity of soft and hard drugs in his cell at the Sittard prison could cost 51-year-old Ron S. 770 additional jail days.

The prosecution wants the Sittarden man to serve a six-year German sentence and a four-month Dutch sentence in full as punishment.
Ron S. allegedly forfeited his right to parole - after two-thirds of the sentence - with possession of the contraband. S. would have served his sentences by mid-November. If the court grants the prosecution's request, he would not be released until the end of 2021.

The chances of S. being a free man again any time soon do not seem very good anyway. He confessed earlier this year that he killed Andy de Heus from Echt in 2012 and buried his corpse in Stevensweert.

Silence

Ron S. remained silent about this for seven years. During that period, he committed drug offenses in Germany and the Netherlands. Because Ron S. wanted to put the punishments for these crimes permanently behind him, the detention in the Andy de Heus murder case was suspended.

S.'s attorney Justin Luiten believes the prosecutor's office has a hopeless case. The prosecutor allegedly waited too long to impose sanctions against his client. He should have done so immediately. Moreover, it was never established that it was drugs found in S.'s cell. Apart from that, Luiten thinks 770 days of additional jail time is out of all proportion.

'He doesn't care about any of it'

Prosecutor Leonard Geuns would prefer that Ron S. come into court to explain the find in his cell. "He is silent during interrogations. He doesn't come to court. He doesn't care about any of it. He violates the law even in detention."

The court will rule in two weeks.

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