Assize. Jarod de Clerck (23) found guilty guilty of murder of Leander Quintyn (32) (Tielt)
During the ruling of the judgment you could hear a pin fall, but in the redeeming words ‘found guilty of murder’ felt and heard the discharge of the relatives of Leander Quintyn (32).
The sisters, parents and friends of the Skater from Tielt hoped for more than four years for answers. Those answers did not come all week. A bitter pill to swallow, but they went on and asked for recognition.
Read also. Assize. Jarod De Clerck (23) is Pure Sadist, according to civil parties: « And laugh with the facts, how desired you can be »The defense asked in vain a re -qualification for intentional success and injuries. They hoped to make it clear to the folk jury that there was no murder plan, even though it was clearly there for the attorney general and the civil parties. And therefore also according to the folk jury.
No doubt
« There is no doubt that De Clerck had decided that evening to bring a blade of fatal violence to any person with a knife, » chairman Willem de Pauw read from the judgment. “(…) Hij nam op voorhand een groot vleesmes mee, zonder medeweten van zijn broer. Hij droeg een muts in combinatie met een medisch mondmasker. Hij wachtte op straat tot hij een toevallige voorbijganger zag en ging Leander Quintyn achterna. Hij is hem gevolgd en heeft hem ingehaald, zonder dat Leander enige bedreiging vormde. Het slachtoffer werd onmiddellijk neergestoken en nadien zei De Clerck dat hij de feiten pleegde om te weten hoe het zou feel. ”
While the accused was taken away, the two sisters and their father fell in their arms loudly. They wanted justice and recognition for the suffering that Leander was affected. After four years of suffering, this is a – albeit very small – plaster on the wound. The sisters and father react relieved. « We had prepared for the worst, » they say. « But now that we are literally told that our Leander was just taken from our lives by someone who had a murder plan: that hurts, but it is also a recognition for all the suffering. They were exhausting days and after this we can take a rest. »
Victim Leander Quintyn (32). – © RR
Bell Penalism
Jarod De Clerck (23) moved from Antwerp to West Flanders together with his two brothers and mother. Then one after other stepfather followed each other. From men with loose hands to excessive drinking: a stable childhood did not have De Clerck according to the defense.
His past was taken a close eye on the entire week, although the young man would have preferred it differently. « He absolutely did not want us to talk about his childhood, » said Kelly Decaluwe during the plea.
They did not want to use it as an excus, but it did form him as the teenager he was to one. The gaming 19-year-old teenager who filled his days with online video games and eating a bottle of vodka is no longer according to the defense. Personal hygiene was hard to find with the teenager, who slept between maggots and dried blood.
Last week De Clerck was always fine dressed and neatly neat. « He is not the choral juice that he now makes to be shining, » said the attorney general.
And the fact that the young man continued to laugh with the facts through shocking reports two months after the facts was the very last drop for the civil parties. « How unfortunate can you be, » said Jelle Dejaegher, one of the lawyers of the relatives, rather on the penultimate Assisend Day. « This is not to sprinkle salt in the wound, but corrosive acid. »
On Friday the jury will consider the punishment. De Clerck risks lifelong.
