Former neurologist Ernst Jansen Steur does not still in jail. The Supreme Court upholds the ruling of the court, which acquitted him a year ago, all medical crimes.
The court in Arnhem had him when only a suspended prison sentence of six monthsimposed for embezzlement and forgery. Earlier, the court had sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence of three years.
The prosecution had gone to the Supreme Court against the ruling of the court.
Suicide
Jansen Steur worked in the Medical Spectrum Twente in Enschede and introduced between 1997 and 2003 misdiagnoses. He told patients they had serious illnesses, which turned out not to be true. A woman committed suicide after they - wrongly - had been told that she was terminally ill.
Jansen Steur, who was addicted to drugs, was dismissed in 2004.
sufficiently motivated
The court acknowledged that Jansen Steur as serious doctor shortage was shot, but saw no evidence that he made deliberately false diagnoses and prescribed the wrong medication.
The Supreme Court, which could send the case back to another court, now ruled that the court acquittal adequate reasons.
'Cover-up'
Injury expert Yme Drost, who assists several hundred victims, is disappointed. "If you look how many years has taken this process and how it should end, then there is still the victims upwards:. Cover-up has paid off and there is glaring suggest that the prolonged inaction of the OM indeed provable fault crimes by limitation could not be prosecuted. " Drost is referring to the fact that prosecution for grievous bodily harm by negligence was no longer possible.
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One of the victims of Jansen Steur, Freddy de Haan, is not surprised by the verdict of the Supreme Court, as the Advocate General had given such advice. De Haan was Jansen Steur wrongly diagnosed with Alzheimer's. De Haan is still disappointed by the judgment of the court in Arnhem: "It is said by the court, we believe Jansen Steur, not the patients, which is deeply disappointing and hard to digest."
"From my past as a detective, as we would be arriving with such evidence, was such a person entered the dungeon," says De Haan.
By: NOS Editors: Photo: Reuters
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