Woman killed man after S&M lure
2008-01-23 20:11
Amsterdam - A Dutch court has sentenced a 29-year-old woman to 10 years in prison and involuntary psychiatric treatment after ruling that she murdered a man she met via the internet and lured with the promise of sado-masochistic sex.
Judges at Arnhem district court said in their ruling: "While the suspect apparently thought about this often in her fantasies, in the end she made a concrete plan in which she took a random victim to her house under false pretences.
"She extracted his personal ID codes under knife threat."
They said the woman, whose name was not released, then stabbed her 50-year-old victim repeatedly while he was handcuffed, inflicting deep cuts to his throat and back.
"The suspect let her victim bleed to death and then removed the handcuffs."
Her lawyers argued the killing was self-defence after the man attacked her with the knife, but judges rejected this.
They noted that she did not have any defensive wounds on her hands, and a single deep wound on her upper arm appeared to be self-inflicted.
Judges said her motive was financial, and she tried to cover up the traces afterward.
Between the man's death in the mid-afternoon and when she called police in the early evening, she tried unsuccessfully to clean up blood and erase files from her computer.
Rubber gloves and plastic sheets
She visited websites for advice on planning the crime and made searches to determine the maximum amount of money that could be withdrawn from Dutch banks in one day.
Investigators also found impressions on one notebook of a shopping list for items such as rubber gloves, plastic sheets and ammonia.
On another, they found impressions of a schedule she had drawn up, beginning with the approximate time on July 11 2007, when she met the victim at a train station and took him to her home in Oosterhout, 120km east of Amsterdam.
Her advertisement, placed in the classifieds section of a popular Dutch website, read: "I'm a young robust dominant girl who likes to conquer men so I can play a nice game with them...
"I'll blindfold you and tie you up and put you in my car and take you with me to my house, where we can play all kinds of exciting games.
"I like men with a good job, suits, because it gives me an extra kick to dominate them: weaklings are no challenge."
- SAPA