Longest-serving Dutch prisoner abroad is back in the Netherlands
Jaitsen Singh, the longest-serving Dutch prisoner abroad, has been brought back from the US to the Netherlands, eight months after appeal court judges said the government should work to have him returned.
Singh, now 81, has spent 42 years behind bars in California. He was sentenced in 1986 to “56 years to life” for arranging the murder of his wife and stepdaughter, a crime he has always denied.
The plane carrying Singh landed at Schiphol airport on Friday morning and he has been taken to Scheveningen prison, which has a medical unit, the AD reported. Singh, who has lived in the US since 1970, has been suffering from leukemia for some time.
His sister Sieta Singh described the news as “fantastic”. “We have been fighting for this for years,” she said.
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