After 34 Years, Son of Murdered Garage Owner in the Hague Wants Justice

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Thirty-four years after his father's murder, the son of The Hague garage owner Louis "Loek" van Dam is seeking justice. He demanded in court in The Hague that the perpetrator of his father's murder be imprisoned. "I need to know that this act will not go without consequences," the son wrote in a statement read aloud this afternoon in court during the trial of suspect Ruben B. (71), arrested last year, Omroep West reports. The murder of garage ow…

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The Public Prosecution Service demanded a fourteen-year prison sentence on Tuesday against 71-year-old Ruben B. for involvement in the 1992 murder of garage owner Louis "Loek" van Dam in The Hague. The 64-year-old Van Dam was shot dead from behind in his garage on Kritzingerstraat on January 27 of that year with six bullets: two in the back of the head and four in the back. "Loek van Dam was executed without being able to look the murderer in th…