Blackbird B. (19) was found guilty of the death drive from Mechelen catering phenomenon Jean-Pierre Jacobs. In 2014 she rode in Keerbergen as a 17-year-old learner driver on the motorcycle.
BLACKBIRD B. (19) SUSPENSION OF CRIMINAL GETS DEATH WITH CONDITIONS FOR DRIVING MOTARD
"A rookie mistake," the judge ruled her, provided conditions, suspension of giving punishment. The survivors receive a total compensation of 100,000 euros well.
The young girl from Keerbergen was on April 23, 2014 during one of her first lessons at the wheel of a small Nissan Micra with her mother as a supervisor. They were just two kilometers from home when Merel at the height of the famous restaurant The Lake wanted to turn left, the little Mereldreef the busier Vlieghavenlaan.
That was wrong. She had her car out of control causing that began to shake. Instead of braking, gave them gas at and they made a driver error. They thereby came to the other section, in which they drove up the 57-year-old Jean-Pierre Jacobs from Rijmenam on his motorcycle. He came from the Keerbergsesteenweg golf club. The well-known owner of Tavern on Martinique Mechelen Korenmarkt could not avoid her, and died of his injuries.
She continues to carry
"It was very tough," responds her mother, who was tried along with the father of Blackbird because their daughter was still a minor at the time of the offenses. "The ruling is now, but she continues to carry. The suffering was however mitigated by the support they followed. She ripped off her puberty and from one day to the grown up," says mom Maggie.
Leuven's attorney said at the time of a freak accident. "It never happened in our district (judicial district of Leuven, ed.) That an underage learner driver ran over someone," said the attorney.
"There are still many unanswered questions," commented the 24 year old Zino Jacobs, son of the victim. During the trial the lawyers of both parties stressed that the criminal investigation would not have been fully implemented. "There are some questions just do not put", the lawyer for the plaintiff said, referring to the fact that some witnesses would be heard no or insufficient.
Too late contacted
"It will never be clear. I will never leave it completely behind me," said Zino. "I blame her nothing. It was an accident, though. But they so quickly was on the job with the car, I was hurt. But that's Belgium. I'm bad on the court than her. "
According to the family of the victim was only a year after the facts contacted along the side of Blackbird. "It was just too late and I have no sympathy. I've only seen in the courtroom and then have deliberately avoided contact," Zino decision.
Blackbird, meanwhile psychology student, received the court suspended sentences if they include any offenses commit more over the next three years, will offer time to the probation committee and a sensitization course follows the BIVV. The family of the victim will receive a total compensation of 100,000 euros well.
http://www.hln.be/ Source: HLN / KIM AERTS
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