Judges in Amsterdam have banned TV crime reporter Peter R. de Vries from broadcasting any more secretly-recorded footage of a convicted child killer in psychiatric prison.

If De Vries goes ahead with the broadcast he faces a fine of €500,000. Last weekend De Vries defied a similar ban with a fine of €15,000 attached.
After the hearing De Vries told reporters that he believed a serial killer was being protected by the courts. ‘I do not know yet what I am going to do,’ he said.
Sunday’s episode is said to centre on the relationship between Koos Hertogs and a The Hague court judge who has since died. De Vries told the court that revelations by Hertogs, who was recorded secretly, are so shocking that they have to be heard.
Last week’s episode showed how a childhood friend took pornography into the the psychiatric prison where Hertogs is being held. The court upheld the €15,000 fine for that broadcast. The money will be paid to Hertogs, the Volkskrant reports.
Hertogs was jailed in the 1980s for killing three girls.