Martien Hunnik has more than 34 years after the very controversial so-called showbiz murder, Tuesday still acquitted of this crime. It concerns the murder record producer Bart van der Laar on 10 November 1981.
The record was boss with a gunshot wound in his head were found in his home in Hilversum.
Hunnik was sentenced in 1984 to two years in prison and TBS. The Supreme Court decided last year that the case should be reopened.That happened after a new investigation following a reconstruction of De Telegraaf . According to the court in The Hague has revealed new research that the statements of Hunnik are unreliable. ,, Thank you, '' was his first reaction to the court.
The Prosecution also asked for acquittal during the treatment to the court. His time confessing declaration is no longer credible, finding the plaintiffs. The judges of the court are agrees. The court will not mean that investigators have Hunnik then put under intolerable pressure to force his confession.
Hunnik spent nearly eight years in prison and under treatment, but has long been at liberty. He was at that time based on his own statements identified as perpetrators. The confession which he did in January 1983, he went again in April of that year.
In the new study showed that Hunnik tended to distort the truth and to beautify and he even invented stories. If the unreliability of the statements had been announced during the proceedings, Hunnik was probably acquitted, the Supreme Court concluded last May and referred the case back to the court.
" back on after I'm 33 years old vomited, '' Hunnik said after the ruling Tuesday. ,, I'm really pretty and so is my family. I'm not a killer. I hear again in '' About compensation for his wrongful conviction, he is clear: ,, They will compensate for 33 years of my life. "."
By the associated press/photo: Martien Hunnik Reuters
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