Eighteen months in prison demanded against woman who staged her own stalking | Domestic

The man watched the hearing in the Utrecht court via a video link. He said through his lawyer that due to his unjustified prison sentence he has lost trust in people and has suffered great trauma. He has health problems and nightmares in which he believes he is still in prison.

The Public Prosecution Service apologized to the man on Friday. “The Public Prosecution Service has failed,” the public prosecutor said in court. “We did not see that anything was wrong during the prosecution.” According to him, a prosecutor’s greatest fear is to prosecute someone for something he did not do.

The 34-year-old woman is said to have made several false reports in which she accused the man of threats, harassment, intimidation and discrimination. The evidence she provided included cards, text messages, Instagram messages and a knife that she had sent to herself, allegedly on behalf of the man.

This first happened in 2017. Based on those reports, the man was sentenced to a year in prison in 2019. When the man was released, the woman reported the crime again in 2020 and 2021.

In 2021, the police began to suspect that the reports were incorrect. The woman claimed to have received text messages stating that the man was at her door with a gun. But when the police inquired at the institution where the man lived, it turned out that he had been there all day.

From that moment on, the police investigated the possibility that the reports were false. After these indications, the police also looked into the earlier case again in 2017. It also turned out that there were false reports.

The woman even contacted journalist Thijs Zeeman for his program in 2021 Sailor Confronts: Stalkers. The editors of that program also concluded that the stalking is fake. The program paid attention to the case in a broadcast in 2022.

The man and woman had met at a clinic where the suspect was doing an internship. They would have had a conflict there.

The verdict in this case is on May 17. The court in Den Bosch is also considering the man’s previous conviction. It is not yet known when that will happen.

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