Overview

• At the Dordrecht court, 22-year-old Mitchell P. confessed to fatally stabbing 59-year-old Elize Veldboer in Ravense Hout on May 30, 2024, saying he chose her completely at random.
• The Public Prosecution Service demanded sixteen years’ imprisonment plus TBS with compulsory treatment, citing a premeditated attack carried out in broad daylight.
• Behavioral experts reported that the defendant was driven by revenge and killing fantasies and advised TBS due to a high long-term risk of reoffending.
• Investigators say the attacker brought a balaclava, gloves and a large kitchen knife; DNA from both the victim and suspect was found on the gloves, and he later returned to the scene to report himself.
• The Hoge Raad upheld convictions in the 2012 Marum swimming-pool murder, leaving in place 14-year sentences for Monique H., her brother Marcel H. and their mother Jacoba (Coby) van der L., and a six-year term for Johan L., despite earlier evidence-tampering admissions by crown witness Willem P.