Relatives have their say in Heidy Goedhart murder case after criticism of ‘Mr. Big method’ | Inland

Follow the case below from 11.30 am via the tweets of Saskia Belleman.

The Public Prosecution Service suspects 45-year-old S. of hitting and strangling his partner Heidy Goedhart (34) in the head on 19 December 2010 in their home in Kaatsheuvel, so that he could continue living with his new girlfriend. After the murder, he allegedly staged a burglary to cover up the crime, while the victim was lying in the garden. S. denies the accusation: “I have nothing to do with Heidy’s death.”

S. was seduced by undercover agents into a murder confession in September 2014 in Marbella, Spain. He thought he would get a well-paid job at an IT company if he confessed, “I lied purely for the money, to get out of debt.”

On the basis of his ‘murder confession’, S. was sentenced by the court in Den Bosch to twenty years in prison, two years higher than the Public Prosecution Service had demanded on appeal. The case will be reconsidered this week by the court in The Hague after the Supreme Court criticized the undercover operation. This so-called Mr. Big method may have compromised the suspect’s freedom of explanation.

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