Seventeen-year-old Anthony D. from Rijswijk gets eighteen months of juvenile detention and youth TBS. Which ruled the appeal court Thursday in The Hague.
D. in October 2014 put his fifteen-year-old classmate Wesley dead at a secondary school in Voorburg.
Anthony was indicted for murder. He himself said it was self-defense. The court acquitted him of murder but found him guilty of manslaughter.
Anthony '' spoke lightly about the use of violence ', but that does not prove that he intended to bring Wesley's life, according to the judges. Only shortly before the fatal, 8 centimeters deep down, he decided to use force against Wesley.
Domestic violence
The court found Anthony diminished responsibility '' He had to make an early age with domestic violence. He sees the world through a distrustful glasses. He seems to provoke conflicts without his being aware of it. He barely problem understanding. "" That's why Anthony also get youth TBS.
The prosecution had demanded twenty months in prison and youth-TBS, equal to the punishment imposed by the court in 2015. Anthony was opposed appealed.
meaningless incident
Anthony and Wesley had an argument during a lesson on the Dutch Corbulo College. A '' seemingly meaningless incident, '' said the court. In the pause Anthony grabbed a knife from his locker.
He walked over to Wesley and stabbed him in the neck. Wesley severely wounded walked into the school and died in the office of the deputy director of his injuries.
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