COUNCIL. Vermassen in case Mehrnaz Didgar: I ask you not for her contempt.

Leuven, On the fifth day of the assisenproces of the Leuven neurochirurge his first two civil parties to the word come. This was followed by the formal indictment of the Public Prosecutor. The defense of Didgar came last to bid: Vermassen go for the acquittal. Click here to read the full story of the fifth day of his trial.

Tomorrow morning will Didgar the last word. After deliberating the jury the question of guilt.

17:50h : For the chambers, I asked whether they should be included. I asked not if they could. But the fact that she's sick would be helped. The four experts said here that they are not socially dangerous, the psychologist included. The judiciary has not so understood. You should see the situation in her head. She pulls a double plastic bag over fireplace head with a product that they inject, but it runs too much away for lack of infusion. The coercion must be strange to the perpetrator. It should not come from your heart. In this situation of depression she was in her spirit not be more in the ability to return. The compulsion must be in advance of or simultaneously with the crime. That is here at the same time. That I have psychiatric reports slide? Expert writes that she was unable to do anything about the situation. There were serious mood disorders of depressive type, and tunnel vision. She was narrowed down. That is also important. The loss of control. Gradually sank them deeper and deeper. She acted not as a doctor but as a sick patient. Conclusion: someone who is severely depressed is not act more normal.

Jef Vermassen, a lawyer of Didgar, replicates in turn.

17:36h : The defense is going resolutely for the acquittal. We didn't see coming. You must be a legal label in the facts to stick. You must judge these concrete facts. The TO can article 71 also assume, but the elements in the file do not point in that direction. I have twice asked for " yes " answers. The defense is about the reports of the experts. They look only to Didgar. But as a jury you must visit all the elements look. You will legally need to motivate, and to the conditions of application look. Each condition of article 71 should be sure. The coercion must be irresistible. Outside of the will of the perpetrator, an external compulsion. Unforeseeable, until that moment. The will of the offender must be completely turned off. According to me and the gerechtspsychiater was still there. It is not certain. The irresistible compulsion must be there at the time of the facts. I have but little heard from the defense. That compulsion was not there at all according to me. I have all the confidence in you that ‘yes’ answers to the two questions, with regard to the killing and forethought.

The Public Prosecutor's replicate on the requested acquittal from the defense.

16:40h : Vermassen refers to article 71: irresistible compulsion. “When he was forced by a power he could not resist”, cites Vermassen. Her punishment she has already received. Her eyes she is by her own fault lost. In the combi at her arrest, she said: ‘I lost everything’. If you say you are innocent, then you have also a good deed done. Only, that is no injustice. Also, if you are in doubt. This woman deserves a second chance. I'm not a gift, but I think they should be included. Think very carefully about. And do not give her the mark of the assassin, because she's not.

16:35h : There are no signs of resistance, no prikletsels at Eline. The T-shirt was loosely held and clamped in the left hand. No injuries from blunt or sharp nature. With who used medication had the need to succeed. If they are a drip, it was not so happened. Steven put her name on the obituary. If that isn't great. While his child is lost. He then realizes that something was not right. I say to you that they are not guilty need to be explained.

16:30h : The perfectioniste is suddenly not perfect. They forgot a drip on her work the day of the facts. Otherwise, she had that bag not to use it. They had a much to thick needle and the blood ran next to it. Therefore, she was not sedated. They also wanted the queen to inject. Who went walk. The house was beyond clean. The pills diazepam they to Eline gave, there were 7. That was confirmed by an expert. That Eline would be called ‘not doing’, that may not. She was numb and would otherwise they are weathered as they realized what would happen. Vincent has made a mistake.

16:22h : The weekend prior to the facts. Eline comes home (weekend Ypres with her father) and she changes. Mom will get a child within that total of the card is. A child that is sterkhield, but when her mother came out.

16:10 : All Mehrnaz her shoulders. She ends up in a tunnel vision and then we see how they are below to continue. She was totally on the slide into a depression. That is in the head, and with her was there also. They thought that they are back bad news went to get (Eline had on routineraadpleging the day of her passing, ed.) “Come for us tomorrow morning”, sent Didgar the evening of the facts to Steven Pans. All had signs of depression: loss of energy, agony and terror, hopelessness, fixation, social isolation. She was afraid that her daughter had to be included. Now that someone so in the morning, cheerful and in the evening? Yes.

16:00 : Mehrnaz was tired. To the end she had a hobby. The purpose was to find himself. That explained Steven Pans. Mehrnaz has not taken time for personal care. At the time of the divorce, Steven a burn-out. He is going to study music, jogging, with friends handling. He is less available-for-Eline, but that I forgive him. He takes care of himself, beautiful. But they (pointing to Didgar) shoot. It is no reproach, but she had to be strong. Where was Eline? She has done and tried to give her daughter to catch. There was a lot of her asked, " peter Eline. (read more under photo)