Driver Who Killed Maithé (8), Janick (29) and Janice (30) Receives a Harsher Sentence on Appeal, but This Does Not Satisfy the Next of Kin: “They Should Have Intervened Sooner”

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“He tries to do the right thing all his life, and he is the one who gets this label?” Walter Van Steenbrugge, lawyer for Jurgen L. (52) from Torhout in West Flanders, could not believe that his client would receive a harsher sentence on appeal today. The driver who killed Janice (30), Janick (29) and their daughter Maithé (8) from Kortemark, who ran the drunk family off the road on the E403 in Zedelgem, was even counting on a milder verdict, but…