The driver who brought two robbers to the home of the elderly Mien Graveland (86) in Helmond in 2014 was rightly given eight years in prison on appeal, the Supreme Court ruled. With this ruling, a lengthy legal battle has come to an end.
Graveland was robbed in her own home on August 29, 2014 by two men posing as employees of an energy company. They beat the woman and tied her to a table leg with tie wraps. The victim was not found by her son until hours later and died the same day in hospital.
According to the judges, the driver is the originator of the robbery. He had told the robbers that the old woman kept a lot of money in the house. He drove them to her house and drove away with them again. The robbers had taken a cash box, which he opened, writes Broadcasting Brabant.
According to the driver’s lawyer, who therefore appealed in cassation, he himself did not use violence against the elderly woman and would therefore not have to go to jail for that long. But the Supreme Court follows the advice of the Advocate General from January and comes to the conclusion that the driver is also guilty of Graveland’s death.
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