A 33-year-old man from Landsmeer stood before an Amsterdam court this week, accused of shooting his 52-year-old mother in the head and removing her lower legs after her death. The severed body parts have never been found.
The case against Timothy B. centres on events from the evening of January 8 last year, when his mother was killed in his kitchen with a gunshot to the head.
Post-mortem findings revealed stab wounds at four locations: her throat, cheek, neck, and chest.
As RTL Nieuws reports, the location of the victim’s severed legs remains unknown, causing enormous additional anguish for her family.
A sister’s devastating statement
Timothy’s sister delivered a victim impact statement in court, telling her brother she is pregnant and that their mother will never get to be a grandmother.
“This is being taken from us by your act,” she told him. In losing her mother, she told the court, she had also lost her brother. “You were my brother, and now you are a stranger.”
Alongside demanding the harshest possible sentence, she pleaded with him to reveal what he had done with their mother’s legs. B. chose to say nothing in response.
Psychiatric assessment and disputed claims
B. was assessed at the Pieter Baan Centre, the Netherlands’ specialist forensic psychiatric observation clinic.
Assessors at the centre identified both an antisocial personality disorder and a history of multi-substance misuse, but declined to draw any connection between those conditions and the act.
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B. has claimed he was sexually abused by his mother during childhood. The Public Prosecution Service says no evidence supporting that claim has emerged, reports RTL Nieuws.
His sister addressed the claim directly: “If there was anyone who did everything for you, it was your mother.”
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