Photo: Screenshot via RNZ / Politie Landelijke EenheidA man who was acquitted of murder in Wellington is now a suspect in a case involving a makeshift torture chamber in the Netherlands. That allowed police to see what criminals were planning and one of the things they discovered was that people were chatting about this torture chamber, she said. In July police discovered the seven shipping containers, one of which contained a torture chamber and released video of it. The suspects have already been in court for a procedural hearing and said the torture chamber was only for show and meant to scare people off but that they did not intend using it. Haanstra is not one of those suspected of building the torture chamber and has been characterised as a career criminal by Dutch media, van den Berg said.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 19, 2020 23:48 UTC