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02-20-2005, 01:40 PM
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Dutch man held over mother's gruesome murder
Amsterdam - A Dutch man has been arrested on charges of murdering his mother, police said on Friday.
Media reports said he flayed her and cloaked himself in her skin during a popular festival.
The 42-year-old man, identified in the Dutch press as Roland Z, was detained on February 5 after police in the southern city of Vlaardingen received reports that a man was causing a disturbance.
He was said to be wearing a strange suit or draped in a flag and shouting quotations from the bible.
"This man was arrested while he stood attempting to direct traffic," said police spokesperson Henry Hambeukers. "He said immediately that he had killed his mother."
Investigators found the 76-year-old woman slain in her apartment.
"This man vandalised her corpse after her death. We are not discussing details out of sympathy for the man's mother, and for him too," Hambeukers said.
He could not confirm reports that the man had a history of mental illness and had joined a cult, but said police were looking closely at his background.
Dutch media were filled with gruesome details of the killing. Reports said the man wandered for several hours during the carnival, a popular street festival in the southern Netherlands. Many thought he was drunk and wearing a costume. - Sapa-AP
Published on the Web by IOL on 2005-02-18 14:16:54
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Dutch man held over mother's gruesome murder
Amsterdam - A Dutch man has been arrested on charges of murdering his mother, police said on Friday.
Media reports said he flayed her and cloaked himself in her skin during a popular festival.
The 42-year-old man, identified in the Dutch press as Roland Z, was detained on February 5 after police in the southern city of Vlaardingen received reports that a man was causing a disturbance.
He was said to be wearing a strange suit or draped in a flag and shouting quotations from the bible.
"This man was arrested while he stood attempting to direct traffic," said police spokesperson Henry Hambeukers. "He said immediately that he had killed his mother."
Investigators found the 76-year-old woman slain in her apartment.
"This man vandalised her corpse after her death. We are not discussing details out of sympathy for the man's mother, and for him too," Hambeukers said.
He could not confirm reports that the man had a history of mental illness and had joined a cult, but said police were looking closely at his background.
Dutch media were filled with gruesome details of the killing. Reports said the man wandered for several hours during the carnival, a popular street festival in the southern Netherlands. Many thought he was drunk and wearing a costume. - Sapa-AP
Published on the Web by IOL on 2005-02-18 14:16:54
© Independent Online 2004. All rights reserved. IOL publishes this article in good faith but is not liable for any loss or damage caused by reliance on the information it contains.