MURDER CHARGE FOR TILE THROWING
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Boredom is a dangerous emotion and resulted into the death of a young woman from The Hague On 9 January when four boys decided to play a dangerous game that went completely and devastatingly wrong.
Bored and troubled, the four boys (ages 18 to 22) from the Dutch administrative capital decided to play a game on a cold winter evening in the Netherlands. They dismantled the pavement near their house and took the tiles with them to a bridge over the A4 highway leading to Amsterdam. They thought they would see what would happen if they threw them down.
Travelling down the nearly deserted highway was Angelique Donk (30), on her way home from work. She never saw the tile coming as she passed under the bridge. The tile came crashing through the windshield and hit her, but didn't instantly kill her. The car slowed down calmly and turned to the right, coming to a full stop at the far right lane of the highway.
This led the scared boys on the bridge to think it wasn't all that bad, until police, an ambulance and a fire truck came racing down the interstate. One of the rescue workers from the ambulance would later testify as follows in the courtroom: "It's a memory I'll never forget. The woman was completely in shock, shouting things I couldn't understand even though it appeared to be Dutch. She was waving and kicking violently around her, half her face was completely gone and blood was everywhere. She died because she drowned in her own blood right before we made it to the hospital and, dare I say it, I think she's better off dead given that she was missing most of her face and brains."
The boys were charged with murder but the court in The Hague found their intentions and circumstances concerning their youth and upbringing were enough to give them mild sentences: 9 years in jail and a long and intensive rehabilitation programme.
Meanwhile, the country is dealing with this shock as bridges over roads and railways are being heavily secured and friends and relatives of Angelique are receiving treatment, trying to take away their fear of driving a car.
Report taken from a Dutch newspaper, translation by Erik
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Boredom is a dangerous emotion and resulted into the death of a young woman from The Hague On 9 January when four boys decided to play a dangerous game that went completely and devastatingly wrong.
Bored and troubled, the four boys (ages 18 to 22) from the Dutch administrative capital decided to play a game on a cold winter evening in the Netherlands. They dismantled the pavement near their house and took the tiles with them to a bridge over the A4 highway leading to Amsterdam. They thought they would see what would happen if they threw them down.
Travelling down the nearly deserted highway was Angelique Donk (30), on her way home from work. She never saw the tile coming as she passed under the bridge. The tile came crashing through the windshield and hit her, but didn't instantly kill her. The car slowed down calmly and turned to the right, coming to a full stop at the far right lane of the highway.
This led the scared boys on the bridge to think it wasn't all that bad, until police, an ambulance and a fire truck came racing down the interstate. One of the rescue workers from the ambulance would later testify as follows in the courtroom: "It's a memory I'll never forget. The woman was completely in shock, shouting things I couldn't understand even though it appeared to be Dutch. She was waving and kicking violently around her, half her face was completely gone and blood was everywhere. She died because she drowned in her own blood right before we made it to the hospital and, dare I say it, I think she's better off dead given that she was missing most of her face and brains."
The boys were charged with murder but the court in The Hague found their intentions and circumstances concerning their youth and upbringing were enough to give them mild sentences: 9 years in jail and a long and intensive rehabilitation programme.
Meanwhile, the country is dealing with this shock as bridges over roads and railways are being heavily secured and friends and relatives of Angelique are receiving treatment, trying to take away their fear of driving a car.
Report taken from a Dutch newspaper, translation by Erik
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