Police will not be prosecuted for aggressive arrest of Michael P.

The police officers who arrested Michael P. as a suspect in the case of missing woman Anne Faber will not be prosecuted for the injuries P. sustained during that arrest. The decision was made by the complaints division of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal.

P. suffered several injuries, including a broken shoulder. At the time he was arrested, it was still unclear whether Faber was still alive.

Faber disappeared in September 2017 during a bike ride in Utrecht. The disappearance led to a large-scale search. The convicted sex offender, P., came into the picture as a suspect. He was at that time residing in a nearby clinic in Den Dolder.

P. was sentenced on appeal to 28 years in prison and mandatory psychiatric treatment at a TBS facility for the rape and murder of the 25-year-old worman.

The Supreme Court reduced his sentence by four months because of the heavy-handed treatment during his arrest. P. then started a procedure to prosecute the five members of the arrest team that took him into custody.

After further investigation into the circumstances of the arrest, the court ruled that further criminal prosecution is not necessary. "The court concludes that the criminal court would not be able to convict the police officers for some of the facts that P. reported."

The court also took into account that, "although Michael P. should not have been abused," the arrest team "only had the interests of Anne Faber in mind, who may have still been alive."