Man who battered daughter’s cyberstalker with snow shovel jailed for 4.5 years

Statue of justice.
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Statue of justice.
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A father who tracked down a man who was trying to date his 14-year-old daughter and beat him with a snow shovel has had his jail sentence increased on appeal.

Judges ruled that the attack by Mario Haazen was serious enough to be classed as attempted murder and sentenced him to four and a half years in prison. He had originally been sentenced to 10 months for serious assault.

The appeal court said that Haazen, from Helmond, had struck his victim, Jack S., so hard with the shovel that ‘he ‘deliberately and knowingly accepted there was a chance that he might die’, according to Omroep Brabant.

The 47-year-old S. had made contact with Haazen’s daughter online by posing as a 17-year-old boy and leaving chocolates and flowers in her garden. After discovering the man’s identity, M. staked out his house, followed him to a public place in Eindhoven and attacked him with the shovel.

Haazen believed that S., who had been given a tbs psychiatric treatment order in the past, had previous convictions for sexual offences, but this was not the case, the court heard.

The original sentence also included a compensation order for €1,925, which was paid for by a crowdfunding campaign.

Haazen shouted out in court that he would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, Omroep Brabant reported.

 

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