AMSTERDAM/PARAMARIBO — Suriname-born Jaitsen Singh (81) will spend the rest of his life behind Dutch bars. The court in Amsterdam ruled on Tuesday that his American conviction for a double murder will be commuted to a life sentence. This brings an end to a decades-long legal battle by the longest-serving Dutch prisoner abroad. Singh left Suriname for the Netherlands in 1965 and emigrated with his family to California in 1970, where he worked as …
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AMSTERDAM/PARAMARIBO — Suriname-born Jaitsen Singh (81) will spend the rest of his life behind Dutch bars. The court in Amsterdam ruled on Tuesday that his American conviction for a double murder will be commuted to a life sentence. This brings an end to a decades-long legal battle by the longest-serving Dutch prisoner abroad. Singh left Suriname for the Netherlands in 1965 and emigrated with his family to California in 1970, where he worked as …