Father of school gunman gets nine years for shooting
The father of a teenager who wounded five people in the
Netherlands' first school shooting has been jailed for
nine years.
Last December's shooting spree by a 17-year-old student of
Turkish descent shocked a country with strict gun control
laws and unaccustomed to violent juvenile crime.
The gunman shot four students and a teacher, wounding two
of them critically, before surrendering to police in Veghel,
about 60 miles south of Amsterdam.
The primary target was a schoolmate who was the boyfriend of
the gunman's sister.
A court in Den Bosch found the 35-year-old father guilty of
attempted complicity to murder, attempted complicity to
homicide and weapons violations even though the son had
vouched for his father's innocence.
The court rejected the man's insistence that his son acted
completely of his own volition to redeem his family's honour,
that his sister had allegedly violated.
The son, whose name is withheld along with his father's in
line with Dutch privacy rules, is being tried separately
under juvenile law.
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