Review

Two applications concerned the case known as the Arnhem villa murder. Both involved a 12-year prison sentence in 2000 for co-conspiracy to commit theft with violence against two people that resulted in the death of a person. Both cases involved a second request for further investigation. After previous requests for further investigation, the Supreme Court rejected requests for review in this case in 2021. The requests were sent to the Advisory Committee on Concluded Criminal Cases (ACAS) for its opinion during the reporting year. The ACAS has not issued its advice yet in the reporting year.

Another request concerned a sentence given in 2017 to life in prison for, among other things, two murders. In 2019, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal in cassation lodged against this. The fourth request concerned a 1993 conviction for rape to one year of imprisonment with the imposition of TBS with a hospital order with compulsory treatment. Neither application has been decided on yet in the reporting year.

Earlier applications

An application from 2018 regarding a 2011 conviction for war crimes during the armed conflict in Rwanda in 1994 carrying a life sentence was sent to the ACAS for an opinion in 2018. The ACAS issued its opinion in 2023. At the start of 2024 the request was allowed in part, following the opinion of the ACAS. More information on the decision.

Review to the detriment of the former suspect

The law also provides for the special option of reviewing, at the request of the Board of the Public Prosecution Service, an irrevocable final decision by a Dutch court which resulted in the acquittal or dismissal of all criminal charges against the former suspect. Such a request has never led to a review that worked to the detriment of the former suspect. There were no reviews in 2024 that were detrimental to the former suspect.