Overview
- The Den Bosch court sentenced 51-year-old Mohamed B. to 18 years for fatally stabbing his wife in Mierlo, exceeding the 15-year term sought by prosecutors.
- The court rejected his self‑defence claim, finding the couple’s four children gave consistent, detailed accounts that he armed himself and attacked during a domestic dispute.
- The victim suffered multiple stab and cut wounds and died in front of her children, who were injured while trying to protect her; the father attempted to flee and left them distressed.
- A Deventer man, 43, received 12 years for attempted murder after shooting a 24-year-old woman six times at close range in Meppel on 11 December 2024, which the judge called an uncompleted femicide.
- In the Meppel case the court imposed a contact ban and about €65,000 in compensation after a psychiatric assessment found partial diminished responsibility, with the victim previously moved to a safe house as the shooter hid for days.