Knife found by journalist was murder weapon in ABN Amro worker’s stabbing, OM confirms
A knife found by an AD reporter near the site where a 59-year-old ABN AMRO employee was killed in late March was the weapon used in the fatal attack. The Public Prosecution Service (OM) told RTL Nieuws following reporting by AD.
The victim, identified as Karin, was a personal assistant at ABN AMRO. She was killed on March 30 near her car in the parking lot of the Nieuw-Vennep train station while she was on her way home. Police believe she was killed at random and that she and the suspect did not know each other.
Police arrested Adil Q. shortly afterward. The OM has charged him with manslaughter. The first court hearing in the case took place Monday at the court in Alkmaar.
Investigators have linked Q. to the woman’s death through camera footage, DNA traces found on clothing and the weapon used in the killing. Q., who is originally from Italy, speaks Italian and some English. He is being held in pretrial detention at the Penitentiary Psychiatric Center inside the prison in Westzaan.
The knife was previously reported by AD after one of its reporters found what the newspaper described as a stabbing weapon with “apparently blood traces.” According to AD, the object was found “in plain sight,” which the newspaper called “remarkable” because police had “searched the parking lot all day” after the killing in late March.
