The court in Groningen has again convicted former forensic patient Mark B. on Thursday. The man received a ten-year prison sentence with compulsory treatment order for strangling his girlfriend.
The 57-year-old B. from Groningen is guilty of killing his partner, the judge ruled. The 58-year-old woman was strangled last August in their home on Linnaeusplein in Groningen. This happened after an argument about B.’s cocaine use.
B. strangled the woman with his hands and then with the cord of a hairdryer. The police found the woman’s body a few days later, after B. had called the emergency line. The man was arrested that same day in the area of Vries in Drenthe after an extensive search.
The man was not found guilty of murder, because according to the judge he acted on impulse. The imposed sentence is equal to the Public Prosecutor’s demand.
B. was previously sentenced to imprisonment and compulsory treatment order for killing a man in Alkmaar in 1993. That compulsory treatment order ended after 22 years in 2019.