30 years' jail for killer of love rival
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October 22, 2010, Friday
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A JEALOUS schoolteacher who doctored the parachute of a love rival causing her to plunge to her death was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday in Belgium.
In sentencing Els Clottemans, 26, the judge said the only mitigating circumstance in the 2006 skydive murder was her feeble psychological condition. Clottemans attempted suicide in 2008.
She was sentenced a day after she was found guilty of murdering Els Van Doren by sabotaging her parachute so neither it nor a safety chute would open during a November 18, 2006, jump.
A jury at a courthouse in the East Belgian town of Tongeren agreed with the prosecution that jealousy motivated Clottemans.
She and Van Doren were members of the same parachute club. The killer and her victim were intimately involved with the same man, a Dutch skydiver, whom Clottemans wanted for herself.
The jury said Clottemans acted with premeditation and that she knew very well how to disable a parachute. Evidence at the trial showed she sent anonymous letters about Van Doren's love life to mutual friends and that she was psychologically unstable.
In sentencing Els Clottemans, 26, the judge said the only mitigating circumstance in the 2006 skydive murder was her feeble psychological condition. Clottemans attempted suicide in 2008.
She was sentenced a day after she was found guilty of murdering Els Van Doren by sabotaging her parachute so neither it nor a safety chute would open during a November 18, 2006, jump.
A jury at a courthouse in the East Belgian town of Tongeren agreed with the prosecution that jealousy motivated Clottemans.
She and Van Doren were members of the same parachute club. The killer and her victim were intimately involved with the same man, a Dutch skydiver, whom Clottemans wanted for herself.
The jury said Clottemans acted with premeditation and that she knew very well how to disable a parachute. Evidence at the trial showed she sent anonymous letters about Van Doren's love life to mutual friends and that she was psychologically unstable.
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