Since he was eighteen, V. lived together with four others in a house in his hometown Almelo. The house belonged to a care institution and the residents were supervised and monitored 24 hours a day.
In the house, V. initially had a collection of knives in a display case. Later the weapons were put in a safe and he was sometimes allowed to touch and clean the knives.
After the organization behind this project went bankrupt, V. had to move to an apartment in Hengelo in the summer of 2019, where he fell under a different care institution. In the apartment everyone had their own room, but without regular supervision.
Unsafe feeling
In this apartment an attendant had seen several knives on a number of occasions. When the supervisor approached V. about this, he replied that he had been threatened and therefore felt unsafe.
It is unclear whether the knives found in Hengelo were the same as the knives that were kept under lock and key in Almelo, or whether V. had bought new ones in the meantime.
Being the victim’s parents shocked that knives have been found before at V. “This gives me chills”, mother Herriët de Vries told RTV Oost. “It seems more and more that this is stacked wrong after wrong. If the responsible persons had just done their job properly, our daughter could still have skipped around.”
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