The court in Den Bosch has acquitted Sergio K., who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the liquidation of Sven Prins in 2015, on appeal. Which reports the Limburg news channel 1Limburg. K. is expected to be released on Tuesday. The final verdict will be made on November 11, but K. may already leave prison in anticipation of that verdict.
His lawyer Mark Nillesen told 1Limburg that K. burst into tears after hearing the verdict. According to the lawyer, there is a “significant victory” after a miscarriage of justice. “Formally it is not yet an acquittal, but it will be,” said Nillesen. “He has now been sent home because the judge says: the time he has served is longer than we intend to impose on him.”
Sergio K. had been detained since 2016, when he was arrested along with Xionel B. and Jurandy T. for the murder of Prince. Like Xionel B., he got thirty years, Jurandy T. got life. Sergio K. denied his presence in the liquidation from the start, but did not dare to say who was there for fear for the safety of his family. In September, at an appeal hearing, a name was called by someone in the audience. When Sergio K. was asked whether this name, Orhan K., was indeed the name of the suspect, this was confirmed.
Prins was shot in 2015 in a residential area in the municipality of Brunssum in Limburg. He died shortly after the shooting, a fellow passenger was injured but survived. The motive for the murder has never been clarified, it may have been the result of a conflict in the drug circuit that got out of hand.
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