den dolder · NL
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A 76-year-old woman was stabbed to death in Den Dolder on 2 January 2025. She was attacked without warning in the street in broad daylight, on her way home, and was stabbed seventeen times. The man responsible, then 29, was at the time required to stay at a psychiatric clinic in the town following a series of assaults, and was on leave on the day of the attack. On 22 July 2026 the district court in Utrecht convicted him and imposed eight years' imprisonment together with tbs, compulsory psychiatric treatment — a heavier sentence than the six years and tbs the prosecution had demanded. The court found the killing premeditated: he had bought a knife several days beforehand and hidden it under a small bridge, and had made repeated online searches about killing someone and about the sentence murder carries. He was assessed as only partially criminally responsible.