Butcher who stabbing ex-son’s son gets five years in prison: murder was provoked, but « the defendant could have been aware of » (inland)

The facts date from October 30, 2022. Around noon, Tim Wils (40) went from Olmen to the Violetjesstraat in Ham where his ex-beauty father, butcher Bruno B. (66), lived. B.’s family had been engaged in a conflict with the man for some time after his relationship with B.’s daughter ended. Especially the distribution of the personal items was food for discussion. The fact that he did not get the pellet stove back was high.

First he pounded on the back door and then walked to the front door. A witness heard Tim Wils calling up to 90 meters. According to the attorney, it immediately invalidated the theory of Bruno B. that he did not know who was on his home. And that it could be a friend of the house, as the suspect lasts. Cameras in the neighborhood also recorded the frenzy of his ex-son son on the screen.

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The butcher opened the front door and Wils stormed in. With a stick of 60 cm long. « He came to me, » said Bruno B. during the handling of the case before the Hasselt court. The man said emotionally that he was kicked to the ground. « When I heard ‘You Se Se dirty Rat’, I only knew it was Tim. I became ‘aware’ that he had a stick in his hand. » Bruno then took a 29 centimeter long fillet. « Tim saw that, but walked straight at me, » the suspect continued. He also said that Tim walked into the knife, which ended up right in the heart of Wils. The attorney and lawyer Philip Daeninck on behalf of the relatives, then pointed to the finding that a downward movement was made with the knife.

Messteek in Hartstreek

According to the attorney, Bruno made lying statements and his fault was clear. « Tim was deliberately killed. If you stick with a razor -sharp knife in the heart you know that this can be deadly. » The prosecution also considered the premeditance to be proven. « He knew well that Tim was at his door. Bruno was spreading about this during the composition. The suspect had a minute to think and not to grab the knife, but did not do that. Moreover, he announced ten months earlier in a phone call to the police ‘if Tim did not stop this, I put down. »

On the other hand, the attorney was talking about a raging Wils. « Razoria that was fueled by Bruno. There was no irresistible urge at the butcher. He had to keep his emotions under control. His reaction was not necessary and out of proportion. Expired murder is the correct qualification. » The case was correctionalized by this grounds for change, as a result of which the file was not dealt with by the Court of Assisen, but by the correctional court.

Legal self -defense

Master Philip Daeninck, the counsel of the relatives, stated that Wils died through a futility: the fight over a pellet stove. « The defendant thinks in his head that it is self -defense. Someone must explain to him that what he wants and does not think is a law. He completely puts the blame in the victim’s shoes. Il Faut Le Faire, » it sounded.

Jurgen Millen and Joke Feytons did indeed go for the slope of legal self -defense and asked the reclassification for deliberate blows and injuries and a conviction for a prison with delay. “Tim Wils is our client and his daughter bothering him. He received a six -month contact ban for six months. Our client did not ask that Wils was at his door that day. With a bat then still. That was not to make a nice chat. And also not to take his stove with him, for he was by bike. He did not put the defendant to the police and the court has stepped to the police and the court has stepped to the Court of the Court and he did the lawyer to put the lawie to the Court of the Clean to be the right to be the right to be the right to be the right to the Court of the Court. wanted. ”

Intention to kill

The Hasselt judge decides that Bruno B. did intend to kill Tim Wils and that he did this with premeditation. The Hamse butcher has therefore been sentenced to the maximum sentence of five years effective and a fine of 800 euros. « The victim died as a result of a sharp upper hand stitch inflicted with a razor -sharp fillet. The defendant stuck this knife deep into the right breast of the victim and hit several large veins in the heart region, » the judge says.

« The court considers it proven that the defendant took the knife and then opened the front door after the victim had first banging loudly until the back door of the defendant’s home. The passage between these actions was sufficient to be able to imagine, » the judge states. There is also no legal self -defense. « Legal defense assumes that there was no other means to avert the attack. However, the court finds that there was still the possibility for the defendant to appeal to the police. »

The relatives receive a total compensation of more than 65,000 euros. The judge did not respond to the request for immediate arrest.