Every month, five members of the Brabanst Dagblad readers' jury visit a court case. Afterwards, they give their impressions. This month the double murder in Steve Biko Street.
The evidence is numerous, the prosecutor argued. But there is no evidence, the woman's lawyer argued. Her boyfriend feels he does not have to prove his innocence.
Under the fingernails of the murdered Bosschenaar Ad van Boxtel, Karin Simons, police found a tire track. One hundred percent sure to be from the car of the 36-year-old girlfriend of the Bosschenaar, according to the technical investigation. "No idea," the woman replied when asked by the court how that track could have ended up there.
Near the spot where Van Boxtel's van was recovered, police found a knife in a street well. On that knife will be not only Van Boxtel's blood but also the smell of the 36-year-old woman. An odor test proved that. the woman had no explanation for that either.
After the murder of Van Boxtel and Simons, the suspects incurred numerous expenses while her bank balance was negative and her boyfriend did not even have benefits. "I did a lot of shoplifting at the time and sold the loot," the woman stated yesterday.
The woman's dealer told police after the murders that the woman had suggested to him that he participate in a robbery of Van Boxtel. And the woman's daughter told police that on the day of the murders she had gotten the impression that her mother wanted to steal Van Boxtel's laptop.
The prosecutor saw in them all indications that the 42-year-old Bosch man and his 36-year-old girlfriend killed Van Boxtel and Simons with premeditation.
But she relied mainly on the testimony of a fellow detainee of the woman. To her, the 36-year-old Bossche detailed would have confessed that she and her boyfriend killed Van Boxtel and Simmons.
"Nonsense," the woman stated yesterday. "I only made her read what I was accused of."
Prosecutor M. Gorter concluded that both suspects could be convicted of the murder of Van Boxtel and Simons. She demanded twenty years. With a previous life crime of the male suspect, she said she did not take into account, because it was already 27 years ago.
The suspects vehemently denied. The male suspect did not want his lawyer to enter a substantive plea. "I don't have to prove my innocence."
Attorney M. Zuurbier of the female suspect argued that there were only clues "hanging together like loose sand" and no direct evidence. She asked for acquittal.
