S. would itself have the chance to get back into society after 23 years and seven months imprisoned, but the state still refuses to participate S. in activities aimed at an eventual return to society. Therefore S. filed a case on.
S. was encouraged by the European Court of Human Rights. Which ruled earlier that a life sentence without facing any kind of leave, is inhumane.
After a period of no later than 25 years in prison, the court must assess how far the rehabilitation of a lifelong has progressed convicted. On the basis of that information is checked whether the persistence of life imprisonment is justified.
The rehabilitation of S. will, because of his long imprisonment, definitely going to last eighteen months. Experts must decide which rehabilitation activities necessary for him now. The State should start drawing up the plan within ten days.
S. was convicted in 1994 for the murder of a man and the fatal wounding of a woman from Badhoevedorp to a robbery.
“My client and I are satisfied with the verdict,” said lawyer Jose Lindhout S. ” the judge made short shrift with the proposed policy of State Dijkhoff (Security and Justice). ”
The ministry is studying the ruling Wednesday, before responding.
plan
In June announced Secretary Klaas Dijkhoff of Justice that he again to the life sentence wants to watch. They need a chance after 25 years of release, after an advisory committee should examine whether a detainee here to qualify.
The advisory committee must also hear survivors and victims alongside the prisoner, standing in the proposal Dijkhoff. For a possible release prisoners are also psychiatric examined by the Pieter Baan Centre.
The committee then submits its findings is for the Secretary of State for Justice, which in each case a decision.
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