Bruges is A 33-year-old man from Zeebrugge risk for the criminal court in Bruges 10 years in prison for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend. According to the public prosecutor, Benjamin J. (33) is not the aim of Jocelyne Ingabire (33) to death, causing the file not to the council. “Hallucinatory”, say the relatives. “And all of that, because of its unbelievable story about amnesia.”
All of 19 months, claims Benjamin J. that he is nothing more reminds of what happened that night on may 26 last year, took place in his apartment in the Noordhinderstraat in Zeebrugge. “By my excessive alcohol consumption”, he claims. Just as the victim Jocelyne Ingabire had Benjamin J. a day-long heavy drinker. Around 22 hours, got both of them, according to neighbors in the philippines. During a tightly wound argument got Ingabire heavy blows on her head and the rest of her body to process. “The following morning at 6 o’clock the accused is awake”, said the attorney. “His girlfriend was lying with her face to him and breathed strangely. She had on her whole body bruises. When he woke up was, took the man a picture, and sent one duration to an old acquaintance. They said that he went to the doctor had to call.”
No emergency calls
J. called only an hour and a half later his health. An ambulance, he would never inform. The doctor finally came only in the afternoon. According to the doctor, he was never told that the victim is in a life-threatening situation. Less than six hours was Benjamin J. at the apartment, while his friend may already be dead in their bed. “He drank even a bottle of wine. Completely incomprehensible.” Ingabire was transferred to the AZ Sint-Jan, but was there shortly after death is declared.
Criminal court
Initially qualified the prosecution the facts as murder, but it was short for the summer no longer convinced that Benjamin J. the intention for her to lead the life. The judiciary referred the man to the criminal court and not to the council. He faced now the maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. The victim was at the time of her death 7 weeks pregnant, but J. claims that he never knew. “I saw a future with Jocelyne and really wanted a baby. I have never had the intention been to kill her,” said the man. His girlfriend was of Rwandan descent and saw her parents at the age of 10 be killed. She was eventually raised by her aunt. They focused on Monday morning at the court with tears in the eyes of the accused. “You don’t have one person murdered, but a whole family,” sobbed she.
You don’t have one person murdered, but a whole family
Aunt of Jocelyne Ingabire
Yet another council?
The relatives are not resigned to a correctional process and want the court declares itself incompetent for the case is still before the assize court. “It is hallucinatory that today we stand here”, pleaded advocate Nadia Lorenzetti. “And all of that, by the apocryphal story of the accused about his memory loss. This file is pure murder. Jocelyne wrote in a letter that she was scared that he would ever kill. The intent to kill evident to me also from the number of strokes, the place on the body where he dealt, and the fact that the victim is totally weakened.” On January 14, the court ruling in the case.
