Willebroek, A 26-year-old man from Aalst has been found guilty of assault and battery. He swung in 2014, a bottle of Jack Daniels to the head of a 24-year-old Antwerp. That lost egg over her eye. “I am to the doctors, very grateful,” said the young woman after the verdict.
Something but than four years after date, hoping the young woman the story now finally be able to quit. In October 2014 she ran a particularly serious injuries to her eye after a 26-year-old dancingbezoeker a bottle of liquor to her head swung. “My jaw was broken, my eye socket shattered and there was glass in my eye,” does the young woman her story. “It was even so bad that my own son me no longer recognized, and afraid of me.” After the incident, had the young woman different surgery. But with success, because the doctors could her eye save. “Only in the middle retina, I have a small tear. That can’t be operated on”, the 24-year-old further. “You learn to handle that but see far, it is still difficult and if it is cold, I have pain.”
“Wanted to find him”
The 26-year-old offender fled after the facts right away and remained for a long time without a trace. He was the dancing within hit, as he was not actually within might be. His ticket was from a previous incident already withdrawn. Only when the police and the public prosecutor a opsporingsbericht spread, could the man in his twenties to be identified. “I would really not let and I am also actively went looking for him. Otherwise, he would never be punished. I have the message shared by a girl from Sint-Niklaas, could I find him,” says the Antwerp yet. The man was nabbed, interrogated, and gave the facts systematically. He was for a while detained in the prison.
Said
Only claimed to be the twenties that the victim, first, himself had taken out. The defense argued at the end of november the solicitation. “He has responded to a hit and shared the slap, as he the bottle of liquor still in his hands,“ said his lawyer, Jeroen D’hondt. The 24-year-old replies: “not true at All. I don’t blow dealt. He was said to create with a girlfriend, and I’m come in between. He wanted me to save, I have him blocked with my hands. Then he got out with the bottle and I lose consciousness. Until two days later ben woke up in the hospital. Thinking that everything was a bad dream.”
No solicitation
the judges in Mechelen believed his statements are not, and swept the elicitation of the table. “On the basis of objective elements, there is no reason to believe that ms would have taken”, it motivated president Jessica Bourlet its decision. The 26-year-old was sentenced to a prison sentence of eighteen months with postponement, of which only the provisional custody effectively. There was also a fine from six hundred euros to the prison sentence associated with it. For a decision will be made as to whether any appeal will be gone against the judgment, the counsel, the judgment will first discuss it with his client.
“fear”
the victim is, finally, a compensation of more than 25,000 euro. “I hope that he never more women to harass and realizes what he has done. Because up until now he has not yet a lot of regret shown”, the Antwerp further. She has it until today, is still very difficult. “I think there often back. To return to the dancing, I did not do more,” concludes the 24-year-old. “And in certain situations, or when discussions arise, I’m away and extract I to the situation. Out of fear that something is going to happen. Out of fear that there is again something with my eye would happen.”
