The 34 year old suspect (H.N.) mentioned in the Dutch press release, who was arrested in Rotterdam as a suspect of a fatal shooting and who will be prosecuted in Rotterdam for that murder case, will also be prosecuted for the murder of L. Carruthers on January 30th 2001 on Sint Maarten. His co-suspect was convicted back in 2001for that murder to a prison sentence of 13 years. Last year, after he had long been released from prison, this co-suspect himself was shot to death.
H.N. had fled the island back in 2001 and Police were never able to arrest him.
The prosecutor in Rotterdam found out that H.N. was on an Interpol signaling list on behalf of Sint Maarten, in order to have him extradited to Sint Maarten. After H.N. was arrested in Rotterdam, the Rotterdam prosecutor contacted the Sint Maarten Prosecutor’s Office and asked for the murder case of 2001. After having established that the suspect in both cases was one and the same, the original Police file was taken from Police archives and through the Prosecutor’s Office formally handed over to the Rotterdam Prosecutor. They now have decide to prosecute H.N. for the 2011 murder case too.
Thanks to Interpol and the fact that the Dutch Police checked all the relevant information (signaling list) and the fact that Sint Maarten Police put the fugitive on that list and could produce the relevant Police report in no time, justice can still be served in this case.
The family of the deceased have in the meantime been informed by the local Police.