Leuven / Kortenaken –
An alleged poke of neighbor Luc Dams (56) on a coffee table, on July 12, 2016: there lies the seed for the “short circuit” in the head of Roger Putseys (74), 18 days later. “That has crept into his head”, says his lawyer Jan Swennen, who emphasizes that his client was relaxed that particular day and that there is no reason to think of any motive. Obviously there was no plan to kill Dams. He responded when his wife was threatened and simply grabbed the kitchen knife to chase him off his yard. ” The devil was certainly in the tail during the closing argument: the lawyers explored the famous Article 71 and suddenly spoke of an irresistible urge. Roger, who was ‘in a frenzy’ at the time of the facts, unexpectedly goes for the acquittal.
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“Joeng, get it off!” That is all Roger Putseys wanted to achieve, according to his lawyer Jan Swennen, when he reached for a kitchen knife on July 30, 2016. “Of course he didn’t want to kill his neighbor …
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