Son confesses to beating to death PvdA councilor: “My father hated me” | Inland

“For five years I have been on the verge of collapse. What’s the matter with me? He just hated me ”, the suspect said on the suspect’s bench with his fists. “I had to hurt him. I’ve often done it with words, but it just didn’t work out. Words slipped from him ”, the suspect said.

He made an extensive confession in court about the killing of his father on August 22 last year. Tearfully, he told the judges that they had another conflict that day about his eating disorder. While his father was visiting the recycling center, the son pulled a hammer from the garage. Hesitantly, he waited for his father and delivered the first blow in the kitchen.

“I was terrified. I just didn’t know anymore ”, the suspect cried. After the first blow, a moment of short circuit followed, the judge told the suspect. The suspect himself said about this: “He never really looked at me. At that moment he looked straight at me with wide-open eyes. ”

‘He had to die’

The son followed his father to the garage and hit him on the head. “I wanted to be free, he had to die. I walked with him to the garage. ” More blows followed there. The victim is said to have died from numerous head injuries. He had multiple skull fractures, brain injuries, rib fractures and a collapsed lung. There was also a lot of blood loss.

The suspect suffers from borderline, a personality disorder, among other things. Due to his disorders, the killing of his father is attributable to him to a lesser extent, his psychiatrist and psychologist conclude. According to them, he went into a downward spiral after a breakup and struggled with feelings of suicide. For years he built up intense anger and hatred and fear. That took on pathological forms. The behavioral experts consider the chance of recurrence small.

Brother supports offender

During the trial, family members of the victim and the suspect made use of the right to speak. “I see my father as the perpetrator and Leander as the victim,” said his brother. “It’s time for Leander to get help.”

De Vlieger’s death caused a shock in the Brabant town. “The news is coming in hard,” responded Adriaan van der Maarel from Berlicum, chairman of the PvdA department Sint-Michielsgestel, earlier to De Telegraaf. “We will miss him as a councilor, an active member of the party and especially as a person. Because Jack was a very social person who, for example, focused on themes such as social housing and the division of work and income. ”

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