More than a year after he killed three people, Thijs H. is in court Monday to decide on a sentence for the 28-year-old Brunssumer.
With that, the hearing is adjourned. At 10:00 a.m. the prosecution will continue with the questioning, and hearing of the expert witnesses. After that, the next of kin's right to speak and their claims will be addressed.
Ramadan conference - 16:45
The reason Thijs H. started eating again after his arrest was not a threat of force-feeding, but a conference about the end of Ramadan that he saw on television. That was a sign to H. that he could eat again.
No idea ma'am - 16:37
Thijs H. seems to be getting a little impatient. He gets a barrage of questions from the prosecution, but mostly does not know the answer to the detailed questions. "No idea ma'am" sounds slightly irritated. The reason the OM asks such questions is because sometimes it all "comes across as rather calculated.
Stitches in the head - 16:30
The prosecution also wants to know why H. stabbed his victims so often. "I went on until they were dead." Thijs cannot remember why he had stabbed the victims in the head. "Why would you stab someone in the head? "asks the prosecutor. "I don't know" says Thijs. The prosecution finds it strange that Thijs plans some things very consciously (on the Brunssummer heath, not bringing his own dog) and says he did other things in a daze.
Memories - 16:27
The prosecution further asks for details about the Brunssummer Heath murders. Witnesses who say they saw H. at a specific time, traces on and around the male victim's body that tell different details than in H.'s statement. "I stated what I could remember a few months later," he said.
Three murders, assignment for two - 16:15
The assignment was always that Thijs had to kill two people. Yet it became three. Why, asks the prosecution. That was because it had to be done again from the code language, Thijs says. So the third victim, Mr. Verhees who also resisted, was not a witness who was also killed. That's what the prosecution is holding up to Thijs now.
Salute for murder - 16:13
Both victims on Brunssummer Heath were attacked after walking past Thijs. Both victims greeted Thijs before he struck.
Too much horror - 16:08
After the first murder, Thijs H. could not bring himself to commit a second murder despite the order. "There was too much horror. I just couldn't do it," he explained to the prosecution why he did not complete the assignment anyway.
Not logical - 16:06
"I am trying to find logic in a moment when my thoughts were not logical at all" the suspect explains what was going through him as he first cut the first victim's little finger as evidence, only to throw it away again. "I wasn't logical. It wasn't logical."
No more delusion - 16:03
Thijs did not actually resist the orders to kill people, he replied to questions from the Justice Department. "I think it was pointless. But I resisted when I didn't kill a second person in The Hague." The prosecution wants Thijs H. to be more specific: "I don't know anymore, I'm not in that delusion now. I'm sorry."
Questions OM - 15:59
The prosecutor asks detailed questions about messages Thijs sent or orders he received. He has no answers to these, "because I really don't remember."
Not voices but code language - 15:53
The prosecution asks why Thijs is so insistent that he never heard voices. "People always say that, but it's not true. I don't have voices in my head, I was getting signals. Code language" Still, Thijs said he heard that his sister's boyfriend wanted to kill him. "That's different than hearing voices," he said. All the other threats were in code language, and were not always understandable either. "In my head I was trying to decipher those," he said.
Dose now - 15:51
The prosecution first wants to know about the medication Thijs is now taking. The doses of his antipsychotics and sleeping pills have been increased at his request. "It is very stressful for me now, and because I want to avoid relapse I asked to increase the dose," he said.
The prosecution will appear at 3:45 p.m. to ask questions, so there will be an adjournment first. The hearing will last until 5 p.m. today, the presiding judge firmly announced.
Truffles for pleasure - 15:29
The third judge wants to know why H. used truffles shortly before the murders, when he was already far gone, even though he knew what effect they could have on him. "I took them then for my pleasure. It didn't matter anymore either, my problems were already so big in my opinion. My state of mind was the least of my problems."
Truthful or silent - 15:25
Thijs H. cannot remember what went through him when he read the news reports about his actions. The judge finds that difficult, because he has said more than once that he had no memories of something, which he later returned to. "If I say now that I do not remember, it is because I sincerely cannot answer truthfully," he said.
Help request - 15:22
She also asks if Thijs H. wanted to be helped with his Code Language and System. "I certainly wanted that, but I thought it was real," she says. The judge notes that H. did seek help for other mental health problems.
Pride and disappointment - 15:17
A second judge now asks at length about Thijs H.'s early years and the bond he had with his parents. Especially about Thijs' fear of disappointing his parents, and how much he wanted his parents to be proud of him.
From psychosis to normal - 15:10
"My transition from psychosis to reality was slow. First I realized that I had gone crackpot myself, then that license plates were not communicating with me. That the code language wasn't real, that The System wasn't real. Only the crimes I committed were real. That took over 2.5 months"
'What I did was much worse' - 15:06
Thijs collapses after a TV program about a murder he sees at the PBC. This makes an impression: "What I did is much worse. He confesses that he still remembers exactly how and why he committed the murders. He tells his story to his attendant at the PBC, but according to that attendant, H. was apathetic and unmoved during his story. Thijs H. calls that description odd, though, because he was actually very emotional when he went back to his room.
Definitely still psychotic - 15:02
After two weeks of gaining strength in The Hague, he returns to Vught, where he slowly recovers. He says he no longer has psychoses. But that was not true, he now says: "Looking back on it now, I was definitely still psychotic at that time."
Spitting out medications - 15:00
Thijs H. deteriorates so much that he is taken to the Judicial Medical Center in The Hague. There he is given medication - just like at the PBC in Vught, but he spits it out. At the JMC he also starts eating again, after being told that otherwise he will be force-fed.
New assignments - 14:58
Images from the cell show, among other things, that Thijs stands upright in his cell for hours at night. Nor does he eat, drink, wash, brush his teeth. "Those were the orders I was given. I thought the neighbors in the cell next to me could read my mind, communicating by tapping on the wall.
Signs for psychosis - 14:55
The psychologist does conclude that there are at least problems in Thijs' relationship with his mother, and with his ex-girlfriend. Thijs remains silent about the psychosis, although the psychologist sees clear signs. "Through above-average intelligent functioning he manages to disguise his psychosis," reads a report from the Pieter Baan Center where H. is being held. But he is convinced, for example, that a radio is communicating with him, while the radio is not on at all.
Retrieved - 14:52
After a search and a nationwide appeal by the police and through Opsporing Verzocht, Thijs was apprehended that evening. But in the first interrogations he remains silent. The System still controls Thijs, even when he is briefly visited by a psychiatrist. For the time being he sees no disorders, but cannot exclude anything.
Back and escaped again - 14:48
After the escape, Thijs calls his parents, who keep him talking and go looking for him in the meantime. They find him, and bring Thijs back to Vijverdal, Mondriaan's clinic in Maastricht. With medication, Thijs goes back to sleep, but again he escapes. This time he does so by setting off the fire alarm, causing the doors to open.
Escape - 14:46
That evening, H. escaped from the clinic, by stacking chairs on top of each other in the airspace and thus climbing out. "I received signals that I was going to be murdered there," Thijs H. explained. "So that desire for death, which you had after the first murder, was gone?" the judge asks. "Yes."
Drugs and medicines - 14:45
In the clinic, it is again mainly about the study problems, difficulties with his parents, adhd and drug use. The judge hammers on about Thijs H's drug and medication use. He cannot explain all the traces of substances found on him.
Recording - 14:41
It is decided to admit Thijs to the open ward of Mondriaan in Maastricht. While this is being arranged, the psychologist reads about the stabbing at Brunssummerheide. They do not violate official secrecy, but do decide that H. will go into private admission High Intensive Care. Meanwhile, on his phone, Thijs reads the news about the double murder in Heerlen.
Knife and underpants - 14:38
Thijs says at home that he is going to take a bath, but while she is hanging on the phone, Thijs is suddenly standing in front of her in underpants and with a knife. Thijs' father snatches the knife away. After the phone call, Thijs and his parents immediately go to his caregivers. But even though the job is accomplished, Thijs remains silent about what happened and what possesses him.
Cheering license plates - 14:36
After completing his "assignment," Thijs is very upset. "I wandered across the moors for a while to get my head back in order. But there was also relief, that the job was done. "And I thought the license plates were cheering me on." Then Thijs walks home, to the shock of his parents. His mother calls the clinic.
Dog leash - 14:34
Thijs had no doubt that someone else had to be killed. Otherwise, after Uncle Ab, someone from his own family would be killed again. Thijs walked past his third victim, and stabbed at him from behind. The man struck Thijs with his dog leash. Thijs kept stabbing until the man was dead. "Until he was motionless."
Crying on the inside - 14:33
The first possible victim on Brunssummer Heath was possibly "too young," H. explained to police. "I just couldn't do it," he says now. With the second passerby, he could. "I wish I had never done it," he says now, clearly emotional. "I was crying inside, I thought it was terrible," Thijs declared earlier. After this murder, he crawled into the trees to catch his breath. "Then I went looking for my second victim. This time it has to be."
Thijs H: "I'm very sorry, but I can't do this anymore for a while." The judge adjourned.
Don't you dare - 14:11
On the moor there would be neither too many nor too few people. Again, H. turned off his phone. "At first it seemed like I was walking some kind of scavenger hunt, until on I came to an open plain and gathered courage to find a victim. At a first passerby, I still didn't dare. At a second one I did."
Brumssummer heath suitable place - 14:10
There is little else going on that day, until Thijs gets the message in code language in a television broadcast at night that his mother will be killed if Thijs does not kill two people. He does sleep that night. 'Sometime that morning I knew I was going to do it,' Thijs H. later explained to police. He walked the dog, grabbed a knife and ran to the Brunssummer heath to kill two people. "That was the only suitable place I could think of to do it."
Conversation psychologist - 14:06
Monday there is another meeting with the psychologist, and we go over the weekend again. Again it is mainly about the adhd medication, the progress of the study and things like Thijs' crying fits. He is restless and verbose, and sometimes evades answers. The treatment is not adjusted, is the conclusion.
Fingertip - 14:02
According to his parents, Thijs also walks around with "a fingertip" as a kind of joke after a cut while cooking. Thijs cannot remember anything about this now, but swears it is not his victim's little finger. After a brief visit to the therapist at the 24-hour service, Thijs returns to his parents' house.
Mother afraid - 14:00
After a bad night, Thijs took the train to Sittard, where his mother picked him up from the station. He was very confused, his mother explained of that ride. He hissed at his mother and pulled a demonic face. She became very frightened of her son and suggests that Thijs be hospitalized.
Risotto with pumpkin - 13:58
After the murder, Thijs H. "I felt lousy, I had heart palpitations. Similar to how I feel now," he holds up to the judge. "There was also no satisfaction, because I hadn't completed the task properly." He destroys the bathroom door in his apartment. Yet H. still runs errands, cooks risotto with pumpkin pieces and sends his mother a message. A earner who came to dinner declared that Thijs was doing very badly that night. When she has gone home, Thijs reads on nu.nl about the murder in the Scheveningen bushes. He emails his mother that he has "caught up with her".
Number one - 13:55
After the murder, Thijs said to the air "That was number one, let me be number two," he explained to the police. But suicide was out of the question because "I had to make it happen.
Drawing - 13:54
The judge asks if Thijs didn't deliberately pick a Japanese victim because he appended a friend much earlier that they have "such intense eyes. "That is a complete coincidence," Thijs says. Even a years-old drawing that the judge says matches that first murder has nothing to do with it, according to Thijs. "I drew a lot of things. Especially animals, I did a violent drawing once. It's just a theme, not a drawing with the idea that I was ever going to kill someone. That drawing is from the time I still lived in Leiden."
Pink discarded - 13:51
In his dorm room, Thijs grabbed a knife, and went to the Scheveningse Bos. There he saw a woman walking, and stabbed at her. "Why did you cut off her little finger?"- ":Because I needed proof." Yet Thijs soon throws that little finger away again. "Because I couldn't stand having that finger in my coat pocket."
Phone turned off - 13:50
"I am going to kill one and I will be killed myself," Thijs now says of his thoughts. On Saturday, May 4, he returns by train to The Hague for an appointment. He still apps his mother that he has arrived, then turns off his phone for 4 hours. "Or I left it behind. Because it has a GPS in it, and I don't want to be traced."
Signals for murder - 13:47
The judge is now going through in great detail the days before the murders, including all the awkward family moments. To the police, H. told them that he was getting more and more signals. These told him that he had to kill two people or something would happen to H.'s family. "In license plates, times of the clock. Then in my head the image arose that I had to do something with that. On May 3, the day before the first murder, it was perfectly clear to Thijs.
Fall in restaurant - 13:42
When Thijs goes to dinner with his parents at a restaurant in the evening, he falls. "I got an order in code language to do something, so then I just fell." Thijs injures his arm in the process. But at a visit to a psychologist a day later, he keeps his head down again about the problems he is facing. He does burst out crying, saying he "can't be the son he wants to be for his mother.
Break
Thijs H. asks for a break. "I notice that I am no longer able to follow you," the defendant says. At 1:30 p.m., the case will be continued.
Silent ride to Brunssum - 12:50
Thijs' father picks him up a day after the funeral anyway. In the drive home, Thijs remains silent. Mondrian's emergency room is also called in. It is Thursday, May 2. In the afternoon there is a conversation with the Mondriaan psychologist, but again Thijs keeps quiet.
Frightening - 12:48
That funeral was really the turning point for Thijs. "I saw messages in license plates, in the hands on the clock. I thought news reports were about me." Frightening, says the judge. "It was." But again, Thijs doesn't knock anywhere for help.
Funeral in code language - 12:47
At the funeral, Thijs thinks that the speaker also speaks in code language, and that she ridiculed Thijs in code language. Thijs also thinks that his family is angry with him, telling him so in code language. That is why he wants to return to The Hague after the funeral.
Death of uncle - 12:46
In April, Thijs' uncle Ab, a brother of his mother, also died. Thijs always had a good relationship with him, and Thijs is very sad. But his therapists didn't talk about that at all. They do talk about tensions, the relationship with his ex-girlfriend and smoking more. "I don't see any deep sadness anywhere," the judge insists to Thijs. On April 30 is the funeral. Thijs is very affected, but wants to return to The Hague in the evening.
Lion's den -12:44
The court asks him why he then went back to The Hague, to the lion's den. "I don't know, I didn't see Limburg as an option anymore either," he said. Thijs' parents were also worried; they felt he became very absent-minded from the medication. But with the social workers, Thijs kept up appearances.
Back to The Hague - 12:40
In April, Thijs moved back to The Hague. With medication and psycho-education he should succeed again, he told everyone. Even in therapy sessions he held himself up, but still lived in the delusion of The System. Afraid that people would kill him.
Medicine - 12:39
Despite extensive googling about the ill effects of dexamphetamine and blowing to counteract some of the side effects, Thijs is positive about the new medication when evaluated. "Are you curious about the effects?" the judge asks. "You have an interest in drugs!" Thijs denies that he used out of curiosity.
Truffles with adhd medicine - 12:35
At Mondrian, H. goes on to say that he has stopped using cannabis and his psycho medication. He does, however, receive dextro-amphetamine for his adhd from now on. Shortly before he starts this, in April 2019, he takes another bowl of truffles. And also he starts blowing again, to regain his appetite that the dexamphetamine makes him not hungry anymore. And again, he doesn't ask for help: "I did have bigger problems than my mental state."
Around the garden - 12:32
The court asks if he didn't read up to deliberately fool the interviewer, to play nice. "No. I concealed things I couldn't say."
Search history - 12:31
During this period, H. also searches on his computer for ways to recognize psychopaths, and ways to disguise such disorders. For the prosecution, the search history is reason to still hold H. partially responsible for his actions. "You have read up," the judge said. "I thought this is necessary infomation to survive," Thijs says.
Hints - 12:29
In those intake interviews, Thijs H. does give small, subtle hints about "The System" that he believes rules the world. Those hints are not picked up. Thijs receives treatment for adhd and autism, among other things, but not for his psychotic worldview. Thijs H. played nice because he did not dare to talk about it.
Not fluff - 12:25
A doctor gets a nonplussed feeling about Thijs. He tells too calmly about the violent events. Again H. continues to conceal his real truth. about the system. Finally, there is an intake interview in January 2019, two months after the suicide attempt. In February and March come more interviews, about a possible autism disorder and Thijs H.'s adhd.
Back to Limburg - 12:22
After the suicide attempt, Thijs is considered for admission to the PAAZ department of the Maastricht or Zuyderland hospital. MUMC has no room, Zuyderland has a waiting list of weeks. Mondriaan may have a place, but all sorts of things still have to be arranged.
Silence - 12:18
H. cannot talk about his suicide attempt even in the hospital. He keeps it down to gloom and languor. He conceals his own truth, about The System and the Codetaal. Why he said what he said in the hospital, he does not quite remember now.
Just won't die - 12:15
Despite his violent suicide attempt, "H. just won't die. 11 hours after inflicting himself, he calls 911. Meanwhile, he also uses marijuana. Amid all the anxiety, H. continues to use drugs. "I had much bigger problems than my addiction. The system, the code language. That was much worse. H. is hospitalized.
Confirmation - 12:12
On the Internet, H. starts reading more and more about manipulation and metaphors, where he finds confirmation in his worldview that the world is populated by psychopaths and that something very bad is about to happen. He thought the world was a metaphor.
Suicide attempt - 12:09
At the intake interview at the clinic, H. says he is not suicidal. The following day he makes an attempt. He cuts open his wrists, ankles and neck. "I was afraid that friends wanted to kidnap me. I was so scared that death was the better alternative." H. had that thought for some time, but he concealed it from the clinic. "It was something I couldn't, shouldn't talk about." H. also did not dare talk about "his truth" to others.
Stopped medicine - 12:05
Without informing the doctors, Thijs also stops taking the psycho medication because it makes him drowsy. Someone does pick up the pills at the pharmacy, but he no longer takes them. "I really don't know the story of that anymore," Thijs says. "I don't have a supply lying around."
On the Plain - 12:03
H. keeps a low profile with the therapist in The Hague. He calls the psychosis a "nervous breakdown. He does so because he was not allowed by "the system" to discuss the reason for the psychosis, that nonexistent attack with a knife by his brother-in-law, either.
Referral - 11:57
Thijs gets a referral to a psychiatric treatment center in The Hague. There he reports having "concentration problems" and a "nervous breakdown that made him anxious and suspicious. Thijs reports blowing, but conceals the other drugs he uses. "Out of shame, I think."
Opinion psychiatrist - 11:55
The psychiatrist concludes that stress and drug use, with possibly an underlying autism disorder, are behind the psychosis. He suggests continuing medication and that H. stop blowing immediately. The autism needs further investigation, he says, after which Thijs can be treated.
Mushroom pins - 11:53
Pin records show that shortly before that psychosis, H. also bought something from a smartshop in The Hague. He can't remember what that was. "Magic mushrooms?" asks the judge. "I don't know."
GP and psychiatrist - 11:49
After the nighttime incident, Thijs and his family step to the family doctor. First to the family doctor's office, where he receives medication. A day later to the family doctor, who refers him to a psychiatrist. At the latter, H. explains that he no longer has fear or suspicion, although Thijs still thinks the world is populated by psychopaths. "I didn't dare say that. I was far too afraid of what would happen if I told the truth: murder, torture, things like that."
Psychosis - 11:47
To the police he later calls that panic a psychosis caused by drink and drugs; a week later he denies it was psychosis. But, "What happened that night was not an isolated psychosis," H. later realized.
Panic - 11:44
At his sister's house at night, H. panics. He wakes up his sister, he is confused. He is afraid that her sister's boyfriend wants to kill him with a knife. He even sees that knife, although it is not there. H. runs out of the house in a panic. Despite messages and apps, H. no longer responds. He doesn't report back until the morning.
Sister - 11:42
When Thijs returns to his parents' home in the summer of 2018, he looks unkempt. He no longer trusts anyone except his sister. There he also stays overnight, and uses alcohol and drugs. Cocaine. Thijs thinks his sister also knows about "the system" that the world is populated by psychopaths. Thijs thinks his sister also talks to him in code, but he does not understand her.
Resume - 11:40 a.m.
Court and defendant re-enter. The prosecution asks if they can also ask Thijs H a question in between in exceptional cases. The court allows that.
There will be a short break until 11:35 a.m.
Unimaginable - 11:20
The insight that the world is "full of psychopaths" made Thijs H. very anxious. "I was very afraid of the consequences if this was talked about. Murder, torture. The unimaginable. I thought that this is how the system is maintained." The judge: "That has been your perception."
That '70s Show - 11:18
Through his internet search H. 'discovers' that he himself is not a psychopath, but that there are many psychopaths in the world who speak in code language. Thijs H. went looking for that code language, and he found it in his sister's boyfriend and in television series such as That '70s Show.
Psychopath? - 11:16
In 2018, H. begins to really doubt himself, even wondering if he is a psychopath. He no longer recognizes himself and starts looking for possible disorders. He partially recognizes himself in all kinds of mental illnesses. He quits his studies and seeks help from his parents. He also goes to the mental health clinic.
Help - 11:12
The problems become so great that Thijs H. eventually seeks help. In 2017, he does not, still hoping it will go away on its own. A year later, in 2018, he only seeks help from his parents and goes to the mental health center. "I don't know why I waited so long. I didn't know what was going on, things were just not going as well. I talked to my parents about that, too."
No Fut - 11:10
The job and studies are too hard. Thijs quits his job, but doesn't get his energy back. He also tries to quit blowing, but fails. H. also gets stuck in his studies and, according to himself, in his career.
Job - 11:09
In 2016, Thijs switches studies again, this time a technical-ecological study in Delft. He breaks up with his girlfriend (which he later regrets) and gets a job as a data analyst at a company in Amsterdam. His boss doesn't notice any stress, but Thijs tells the PBC that he is getting burnout symptoms. With the boss, he keeps up appearances.
No brake - 11:06
The judge asks if Thijs has a brake. "When I'm working on something, I like to put all my energy into it," he says.
Neglect - 11:05
In 2014, Thijs, as director of the student union, is faced with the bankruptcy of the supplier of textbooks. Under high pressure, Thijs works through nights to make sure the students got their money back. H. neglects himself, barely sleeps and turns to drugs even more.
Girlfriend - 11:02
During this period, Thijs also gets a girlfriend. The study disappoints him; he discovers that he misses technical things in the study. Girlfriend Louisa knows that Thijs uses drugs. "I only used hard drugs in the beginning of the relationship. Once ketamine, once xtc."
Psychonaut - 11:01
The judge asks why H. keeps reaching for drugs. Thijs says he knew many people who used drugs, and he wants to try it himself. "Are you some kind of psychonaut?" the judge asks. "No," says Thijs. "There have also been years when I used nothing."-"Nothing?" - "Well, cannabis then."
Study - 10:59
Despite everything, Thijs is a serious student. He is often in the library and on the board of the study association. He also occasionally goes surfing. Still, he grabs speed again; it helps him concentrate.
Addicted - 10:57
Thijs H. saw the hash and weed use as an addiction himself, but it took away his stress. "I tried to quit myself, for example through an online program. But that didn't work." Out of shame, he did not dare ask his parents for help.
Drugs - 10:53
In Leiden, Thijs H. begins to use drugs heavily, under the influence of one of his new friends. Blow, truffles, ecstasy. Along with that come delusions. "I saw things distorted, discolored. Once also a girl looking at me." Weed and hash used H. every day to sleep. That was an addiction.
Social work - 10:50
After South Africa, Thijs H. went to study social work in Sittard. Because he had discovered that he likes working with people. The study went well, but he could not find his niche. 'Because I was looking for more of a challenge, wanted to work at a higher level.'
Thijs hushed up blowing - 10:49
After fourth grade, Thijs transfers to havo. Although the vwo goes smoothly for him. The court asks him why he takes that step. "Mainly the gaming," H. explains. "Not the blowing, I only did that occasionally."
On the one hand, Thijs had "trouble with social dynamics" as a teenager; on the other hand, he was very social others. In the family, Thijs felt disappointment, and he concealed his drug use, for example.
Drug use - 10:46
In the third year, things took a turn for the worse. Thijs was bullied (incidents, he tells himself) and abandoned his homework. His interests were now elsewhere: gaming, making computer games. He also starts blowing. 'Once in a while,' according to H. himself. Initially, Thijs H. became smiley, cheerful, hungry and somewhat drowsy from that blowing. He also went with friends to festivals where drugs were used. At 17, H. took speed for the first time. "I became alert and awake," he tells himself.
But according to a friend, speed actually made Thijs anxious. H. used speed sometimes after that, but that only made him busy and excited.
Dyslexia - 10:35
After elementary school, Thijs H. goes to grammar school. There played some pressure from home, and the first year H. is very driven. In the second year, H. is found to have dyslexia, and transfers to the atheneum.
Young Thijs - 10:29
So much for the facts. For the "why," we now look at the life history of #ThijsH. Born in September 1991, a pregnancy and delivery without complications. Walking at 1 year, also talking he learned quickly. Thijs H. is sweet when after four years his little sister is born. The boy's fine motor skills lag behind, and this is instilled in little Thijs at kindergarten. Therefore, he goes to another school.
Lawyer about Thijs - 10:26
Attorney Weening reiterates that Thijs H. remains a confessed suspect "as far as the factual complex is concerned. He cautions that H. has been taking a lot of medication in recent days (and today), and therefore comes across as more sufferable than he normally is.
Body Hague and Brunssum - 10:22
First the body of Ms. Meeuwsen was found, soon after police also found the body of the second Heerlen victim, Mr. Verhees. He resisted #ThijsH appears from the injuries. Also from Mr. Verhees, dna traces are found on clothing, headphones and shoes of Thijs H.. The suspect confirms all of this.
DNA traces - 10:20
DNA traces of the victim were found on Thijs H.'s headphones and jacket. Also, the injuries to the victims in Heerlen match minor damage to the knife from the H. family's kitchen.
Finger cut off - 10:16
Gruesome detail is that the murdered woman's left thumb was cut off in The Hague.
Thijs H. repeats confession - 10:15 a.m.
Thijs H. said on August 16 last year that he committed the murders. He is now repeating that confession again.
Session started - 10:14
Thijs H. has arrived at court. In this liveblog, follow developments at the court in Maastricht.
https://www.1limburg.nl/teruglezen-thijs-h-huilend-van-binnen-na-moorden?context=topstory
