His girlfriend and friends begged him not to drive in his condition, but Jan D. wouldn’t listen. On the night of June 25 to 26, 2022, in Roeselare, the driver hit Marthe, who was riding a bicycle, after leaving the road. She died instantly. The man, who had been indicted and then released on conditions, had 2.41 g of alcohol in his blood, report our colleagues from HLN.
“I’m so drunk, hahaha, I’m still behind the bar,” he wrote in a message the night the accident happened. Circumstances that make the border between deliberate or not extremely tenuous, according to Jan Leysen, the lawyer for Marthe’s family.
“You are a danger on the road who must be stopped”, launched the prosecutor during the trial, at the Courtrai court. “I wish I could go back in time,” Jan D. told the court. “I’m ashamed, this should never have happened. He will know his sentence on April 18.