L. strangled girlfriend and her daughter: ' something snapped in me '

On that fateful day in December he had his shoes on attracting when he was restrained by his girlfriend. "Then something snapped in me," he said in court.

The 37-year-old L. said Pieters (41) turned the door and said that he got away. She would have threatened to do revealed on Facebook that L. had secretly filmed her daughter. While L. tried to take the keys to his girlfriend, stop beating on him, he said.
'Squeeze but'

The suspect pinch Pieters' throat. She gasped, but continued to refuse to give the keys. According to L. she said yes, but pinch. L. Pieters then strangled with a rope.

When his stepdaughter as her mother saw after death, she fled to the attic. L. switched the wifi signal and ran after her. Attic L. tied the girl fixed and raped her. Then he strangled her, too. "I did not kill her," he told the court. "But I had to." The bodies he hid in the crawl space. Beware they were found two days later.

Often quarrel

The story of the accused reveals a long run-up to the fatal weekend. He made a lot of quarreling with Peters. She was irritated by his drug use, he found it annoying that she drank. The couple, moreover, was deeply in debt. There was also arguing about the spying and filming Fleur. "All the stress I put it no more," said L.

L. is on trial for the murder of his girlfriend and stepdaughter, rape Fleur, the mercy killing of bodies and possession of child pornography. Later today, the OM comes with sentencing.

By Editorial RTL News: Photo: Reuters