MAASTRICHT - Because there was a murder plan behind the stabbing of a love rival', a 25-year old from Hoensbroek must receive 12 years and tbs.That is the demand that public prosecutor Martin Scharenborg formulated yesterday in the Maastricht court against the "vindictive" C. C. An unusually high demand for attempted murder, Scharenborg himself was well aware of. Reason why he explained at length how he had arrived at it. "The legislature put a maximum of 20 years on it. I don't believe that attempted murder can get much worse than in this case." On the afternoon of Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008, C. went with an opposite neighbor to find the person who had "nicked" her ex-husband. She had two knives with her, but mostly wanted to talk, she implored the court. When she found the woman, her 'love rival' revealed that she was really having an affair with the man in question. It became black before C.'s eyes. She grabbed a knife and slashed the woman's neck and face. The victim was left bleeding, on a Sunday afternoon, on the public road. "That everyone around you walks on when you are lying bleeding in the street: that is apparently also the Netherlands," officer Scharenborg observed. Against the neighbor across the street, who did nothing to stop C. and "facilitated" her by keeping the victim's 3-year-old son out of the "danger zone," he demanded four years in prison. According toC.'s lawyer Serge Weening, there was no attempted murder. "She was just doing something with that knife," he said. He denounced the "extremity" of the sentence. Behavioral experts consider the risk of C.'s recidivism very high. Therefore, in their view, she needs treatment quickly: she can enter a facility as early as next week. Weening asked the court to grant her this opportunity. The court will decide July 21 or, if the counsel's request is followed, earlier.

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