Overview
- The Utrecht court acquitted Borsato earlier this month, finding the complainant's account insufficiently specific and the witness statements, messages, audio and diary excerpts inadequate as corroboration.
- The Public Prosecution Service judged the chance of a conviction on appeal to be very small because any decision would rely on the same dossier and further investigative options have been exhausted.
- Prosecutors had sought a five-month prison sentence over alleged indecent acts said to have occurred between September 2014 and January 2015.
- Under Dutch law the complainant cannot file her own appeal, and her lawyer described the decision not to proceed as disappointing.
- Borsato previously filed a 2021 complaint alleging slander, libel and a false report against the woman and her mother, and his lawyers have not decided whether to pursue that case.