On Monday, the court in Dordrecht sentenced Abdi B. (27) to 24 years in prison and institutionalized psychiatric treatment for the murder of Manuel Alvarez y Pena (29) from Zwijndrecht. The court sentenced two other suspects in the “suitcase murder” to 20 years in prison for complicity in the murder. A fourth suspect got one year in prison for helping to hide the body. A fifth suspect was acquitted due to a lack of evidence.
Emotions ran high in the court in Dordrecht on Wednesday morning. Relatives of Manuel Alvarez y Pena (29) from Zwijndrecht, who was stabbed to death, dismembered, and stuffed into several suitcases, exercised their right to speak on the second day of the suitcase murder trial. During its closing argument, the Public Prosecution Service called for the five suspects to be convicted, and sentenced to between 20 and 24 years in prison.