Life sentences are rare in the Netherlands, where the sentence means a convicted person must spend the rest of their life behind bars.
“With these gruesome and senseless acts, the suspect inflicted colossal suffering on many.” “The violence and cold-bloodedness are terrifying,” Rotterdam District Court said in a written verdict. Two days earlier, he fatally shot a man at a shoe repair shop in the nearby town of Vlissingen to test the Glock pistol he had bought, prosecutors said. He also was convicted of threatening the person, who wasn’t identified by the court. The man had once been thrown out of the farm after he had a relationship with a person there. He shot and seriously wounded two other people at the farm. under Dutch privacy rules, fatally shot a female worker and a 16-year-old girl at the farm in Alblasserdam near the port city of Rotterdam on May 6, 2022. The defendant, identified only as John S. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders and two attempted murders. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A Dutch court on Friday convicted a man of killing two people at an activity farm for people with mental and psychological disabilities and earlier fatally shooting a man to test his weapon.
