The Newspaper investigators suspect the occupant of a bed and breakfast in Zottegem of the murder of her husband. Also the daughter of the couple was interrogated, but she was then from home. To a motive is the preliminary guess.
A year ago region Dirk Z. (61) together with his wife, Chris T. (57) and daughter Silke (19) down in Zottegem. Previously, the family in Everbeek (Brakel) B&B The Brass Pump. As a hobby. Because Dirk also had a good job as a freight forwarder in the port of Antwerp. Chris grew home breeds of cat. And daughter Silke took care of five horses, with which they have day trips organised for the guests.
Who the horses were, incidentally, the reason for the move to Zottegem, where they have a small guesthouse with two bedrooms started under the same name. “In their new location there is enough space to place the animals close to home on a pasture to stables. Here in Everbeek, they had there no place for that,” says a former neighbor.
Sunday evening around 23 hours had the emergency services phone from the new cottage. Daughter Silke raised the alarm because her father was something happened. When the rescuers later at the house, they could only have the death of Dirk Z. determine.
a Lot of blood is lost
The officers sealed the entrance to the house and the guesthouses, while the cars of the couple, were taken for research. How the sixties exactly to the life, is still unclear. What is certain is that he died by violence. Presumably he lost a lot of blood, because the court had after the examination, a specially poetsbedrijf come to the house to clean.
Wife Chris and Silke were arrested for questioning. “The daughter today, after hearing back home”, says Annelies Verstraete of the public prosecutor. “She was present when the emergency services arrived, but we have no evidence that they have done wrong.” Her mother spent the night in the cell on suspicion of murder. According to a police source would be the wife confessions have made during her trial. The public prosecutor wanted last night, not attach.
The former and current neighbors of the B&B owners are shocked at the news. “Actually, it was a model family,” says another ex-neighbor from Brakel. “Dirk earned a good living in the port. He drove a fancy car. Financial problems there are according to me not. If there already was something wrong, we have certainly never noticed.”
That also says a family member on the phone. “We do not know what there may have played. Problems? Since we know nothing of. It went well in the new B&B.”
Depressed
Some local residents say that Chris T., worried about the alcohol consumption of her husband and about the depression that is striven would have. “When I was with her, for a cat to buy, she said that Dirk every now and then many drank because he was depressed. He was often quarrel. Would that be played?”
Today, the wife of the victim to the investigating judge. Who should decide whether or not they held.
Weekly 3 deaths due to intimate partner violence
on Average, die in our country each week, three people by intimate partner violence. “The stereotype wants that the woman was particularly verbally aggressive and the man is physical violence commits, but that’s not true always,” says Helen Blow, expert intrafamiliaal violence. Women are according to research, more often than men the victim of severe or very severe intimate partner violence. A study by the Institute for the Equality of Women and Men shows that 0.8% of the men in a relationship physical violence problems, compared with 1.9% of the women. “Usually it is a two-way street: both the man and the woman is violent”, says Blow. “When someone dies, it is usually more because of a quarrel out of hand. A voorbedachte murder comes less.”
