Overview
- The sentence imposes compulsory psychiatric treatment under the Dutch TBS measure instead of a custodial term.
- The court ordered €40,000 in compensation to the bereaved family.
- Judges rejected relatives’ claims that stopping prescribed medication made the defendant culpable, citing expert assessments.
- Family members, including the boy’s mother, followed the verdict by livestream, had sought a long prison term, and said they accept the outcome as partial justice.
- The fatal stabbing occurred on 29 December in the father’s Oosterpoortbuurt apartment in Groningen and involved dozens of knife wounds; the victim played youth football for ASC Waterwijk.