The police found the decapitated body of a 63-year-old woman in her home in Hellevoetsluis on Wednesday afternoon. Her son, a 31-year-old man from Diemen, was arrested on the A4 between Rotterdam and Delft a short time later. He had his mother’s head in the car with him, sources told AD The police did not confirm this, only saying that a 63-year-old woman was found killed in her home on Molenlaan and that a 31-year-old man from Diemen was arrested as a suspect on the A4. The police responded to the home at around 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday. According to AD’s sources, the police stopped the man’s car on the A4 near Schipluiden and found the 63-year-old woman’s head in the vehicle. They arrested the suspect and took him to a police station. The police placed black screens around the car for forensic investigation, closing one lane of the highway to give officers space and privacy to work. A neighbor told AD that she saw the woman coming home with bags full of shopping shortly before her death. She heard a loud noise a short time later. “It was like an animal being abused.” Another neighbor said he heard a woman scream and a deep male voice. But because there are also noisy young people in the neighborhood, it did not immediately alarm him. The street was filled with police cars not much later. The police cordoned off the area around the house for investigation. A blood trail can be seen from a few meters in front of the house, leading towards the nearby Peperstraat, where the woman parked her car, the neighbors said. According to the newspaper, surveillance camera footage shows the son walking towards his mother’s car with a blue bag. A neighbor said that the son no longer lived with the victim, but had been visiting for a few days. © 2012-2025, NL Times, All rights reserved. 2025 Photo: Depositphotos.comPolice have arrested a 31-year-old man who allegedly decapitated his mother and fled the scene who police believe to have suffered a psychotic episode was stopped on the A4 motorway at Schipluiden near Delft on Wednesday after the headless body of his mother (63) was found at her home in Hellevoetsluis A neighbour said she had seen the woman come home with bags of shopping shortly before her death. “Not much later I heard a noise like someone was hitting an animal,” she told the AD Video footage shows the son running from the house towards his car carrying a holdall the son no longer lived at home but was staying there for a couple of days Police only confirmed the family relationship between the man and the woman and said they are continuing the investigation We could not provide the Dutch News service without the generous support of our readers Your donations allow us to report on issues you tell us matter and provide you with a summary of the most important Dutch news each day Many thanks to everyone who has donated to DutchNews.nl in recent days We could not provide this service without you Please help us making DutchNews.nl a better read by taking part in a short survey Residents of Hellevoetsluis are shocked by the murder of a 61-year-old woman in her home on Molenstraat on Wednesday Sources told various media that the woman was beheaded He was arrested on the highway with his mother’s head in the car Mayor Arno Scheepers said he and the municipality were “shocked and in disbelief about the horrific event.” AD identified the suspect as Jesse R he shared on the networking site LinkedIn that he no longer had a job “Now I am looking for an organization that dares to understand the limitations of my manic depression,” he wrote at the time “And is also not afraid to use my giftedness as much as possible.” The police responded to the woman’s home at around 2:45 p.m They arrested a 31-year-old man from Diemen on the A4 highway in connection with her death the police have only said that the woman was killed in a crime and that the suspect is a family member Neighbors told Rijnmond that Alia had two adult sons, both in their thirties. “She had good contact with one of them. The other, from Diemen, came by every now and then. Apparently, he suffered from psychoses,” one neighbor said. “Everyone is in shock. Because this is normally a very quiet street.” Alia was known as a “very sweet woman,” the woman said. “We knew each other, but we didn’t knock on each other’s doors. I didn’t know what was going on.” Another local told Rijnmond that they didn’t know each other personally. “We said hello to each other here on the street. She seemed like a sweet woman to me.” Until recently, Jesse R. lived on the large student campus, Our Campus, on the edge of Amsterdam, AD reported. The door to his 27 square meter studio was also closed by police tape when the newspaper arrived. According to the newspaper, most of R.’s neighbors didn’t recognize him when presented with a name and photo. A few said they’ve seen him in the elevator, but the rest said they’ve never seen anyone enter or leave the studio apartment in question. A 33-year-old from Hellevoetsluis was arrested this week for sexually harassing two children at a middle school in Brielle. The man, who worked there as a teacher, is suspected of sexually transgressive behavior. The examining magistrate ruled that the man will spend two weeks in pre-trial detention. Michael Scheffers, the Rector at Maerlant College in Voorne-Putten, has said that the teacher has been fired since the incident. “We received the first indication about this in February, and we then investigated the matter ourselves. He was fired instantly based on that.” The school have informed the parents, students, colleagues about the incident. “We want to be a safe learning and working environment,” said the rector. The Maerlant College is a large school community with around 1,350 students. “A case like this is far-reaching and impactful, especially for victims. We are, therefore, cautious in the information we share. 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an unfamiliar smell one of the ten authorized cannabis growers for the Dutch Experiment Closed Coffeeshop Chain cannot help but feel that the complaints about the smell stem from unfamiliarity with cannabis cultivation A whiff of illegality surrounds cannabis cultivation and in nine other locations in the Netherlands Under the full control of the Dutch government ten growers are allowed to grow cannabis legally and transport from the greenhouse to the coffee shop is closely monitored at CanAdelaar Track-and-trace is nowhere in the agricultural sector as extreme as in this cannabis trial Late to the partyCanAdelaar was initially not even going to participate in the cannabis trial CanAdelaar ended up as number 12 on the list When two parties turned out not to be able to participate after all with Austrian owners and experience with cannabis cultivation at home and in Canada "We were late to the party," Max says with a sense of understatement The Commercial Director understands Dutch well and is also well-versed in Dutch politics This is evident when he later talks about the agricultural debate in the Netherlands The agricultural sector in the Netherlands Greenhouse rapidly convertedBack to the beginning There was a rush to get the cultivation site ready after receiving the cultivation license in March 2023 The tomato greenhouse in Hellevoetsluis was quickly converted Greenhouse builder Horti XS was in charge of this "When it became clear that the mother plants would soon arrive we worked with about 60 men at a time to get the greenhouse ready for that," Project Manager Sebastiaan Hijstek and COO Dennis Flaton of the greenhouse builder remember well Max also repeatedly stresses how special it is what we can already see in mid-February Two of the three greenhouse compartments in the complex The third compartment is being prepared during our visit and an air filtration system also passes by on a cart to be installed Contact with neighborsAt the start of cultivation had already been modified by greenhouse builder Horti XS so that irrigation water could be collected and recirculated The tomato greenhouse became a greenhouse for potted plants The fact that odor nuisance could be a problem with cannabis cultivation had not been realized enough at CanAdelaar they had included the neighbors from the beginning in the plan to convert the greenhouse from growing tomatoes to growing cannabis including the former tomato grower himself complaints came to the environmental department keeps track of complaints for the entire municipality of Voorne aan Zee Whether that complaint is about CanAdelaar or one of the many chimneys in the port area cannot be seen on the public reporting website Max can hardly imagine that there are still many complaints about his company CanAdelaar immediately decided to invest heavily in air filtration systems realize that well," stresses CanAdelaar's Commercial Director we wouldn't do it."Once the crop starts flowering That is substantially more than was previously needed when growing tomatoes in the same greenhouse cultivation and processing in one companyAnyone entering the cannabis greenhouse smells virtually nothing The first greenhouse compartment is set up for long-day treatment mostly free sun light from outside supplemented by artificial lighting from (for now) HPS lamps (LED is an option in the future) the plants move to a greenhouse compartment for short-day treatment greenhouse builder Horti XS has installed blackout screens so that the plant can sense that the days are getting shorter The plant's natural response to this is flowering And where in nature the plant starts making seeds afterward cannabis growers make sure they harvest the flowers by then you get cannabis ready for the coffee shop What is special is that CanAdelaar does all the steps of the process itself from the propagation of plant material to harvesting the former tomato shed has been converted into numerous (air-conditioned) compartments "We are quite proud of how our plan from Excel turned out in practice." the official four-year experimentation phase begins CanAdelaar will be the only grower cultivating entirely in a greenhouse whether or not in a complex that does resemble a greenhouse Max explains that the Austrians wanted to keep costs as low as possible whether legal cannabis cultivation in the Netherlands will be allowed to continue after 2028 is not yet clear The Hellevoetsluis-based growers want to grow a high-quality product at the lowest possible cost they managed to be first in production despite the late admission to the experiment "We now supply almost all 73 participating coffee shops," Max points out he expects an oversupply in the cannabis trial states where cultivation has been legalized "Is that why they call it that (wiet) in Dutch?" It is another reason why the company chooses to keep costs low Especially the (over)regulation by the Dutch government makes cultivation expensive The subject of track and trace comes up repeatedly but due to the form chosen by the government also a nightmare," according to Max A lot of manual work is involved in all the administrative operations Five types of productsWhat helps growers in Hellevoetsluis keep costs down is that the greenhouse complex is connected to geothermal heat That geothermal heat comes from a project in nearby Vierpolders This generates electricity for the HPS lighting and the various systems for processing the cannabis CanAdelaar will also start making specialties later this year Some of the harvest will be processed into edibles and none of the other participating growers can make it That's why we decided to do it anyway." Alongside weed those edibles will soon be the fifth end product from the greenhouse which grows more than 30 different varieties from propagation to cultivation and processing for delivery to coffee shops participating in the Dutch government's cannabis trial VentIt is mainly the terpenes that give cannabis its recognizable VFA Solutions' systems filter gases and odors from the air The system also removes (ultra)fine dust from indoor and outdoor air Vincent van Baaren of VFA Solutions explains: "Our technology combines ASPRA® technology with specific adsorption material we test four types of adsorption material to choose the optimal product configuration for these greenhouse conditions we already have experience with two types of adsorption material but we think we may have found two more materials that can also work well." The electrostatic air filtration technique is powerful "It is possible to save up to 80 percent on energy costs of ventilation systems with our systems because our filtration systems have an open structure and do not clog." The growers in Hellevoetsluis do ventilate occasionally to get rid of moisture from the greenhouse The availability of geothermal heat helps get moisture out of the greenhouse we don't come across any dehumidification units Max says: "Opening the windows occasionally is the best way Sebastiaan Hijstek (Horti XS) and Max Schreder (CanAdelaar) Air filtrationASPRA air filtration technology was originally developed for medical care but is now used in many sectors these can lead to a reduction in yield and product quality VFA Solutions devised a plan for the CanAdelaar project VFA Solutions' first units were installed in Hellevoetsluis last autumn CanAdelaar placed a hefty order to solve its problems Vincent: "I think it's great to see here now in practice that whatever has been proven in the laboratory also works the air filtration system also works under humid greenhouse conditions Vincent explains: "HEPA filters do not work optimally under such conditions and can clog up more easily We tune the closed ionization to the air composition controlled ionization we work with in our systems is unique." Fair treatmentWhat VFA Solutions does at CanAdelaar can be done for the entire agricultural sector For the agricultural sector in the Netherlands agricultural activity sometimes involves an odor "Our entire complex is still being equipped with air filtration systems We are very satisfied with VFA Solutions' systems You can hardly smell cannabis here in the greenhouse now That's why we are now also asking for fair treatment and are challenging the fines we receive." For more information:CanAdelaar[email protected]www.canadelaar.com Horti XS[email protected]www.hortixs.com VFA Solutions[email protected]www.vfa-solutions.com FreshPublishers © 2005-2025 HortiDaily.com This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. 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Het slachtoffer is de 46-jarige bewoonster. Inmiddels is in #Duiven haar 47-jarige ex-partner uit Wanroij aangehouden als verdachte. Het onderzoek zal waarschijnlijk nog het grootste deel van de avond duren. pic.twitter.com/eMOw0KANZT The arrested man is suspected of “involvement in the death of this woman,” a police spokesperson said to RTL Nieuws but was arrested about 60 kilometers away in Duiven and the police are investigating what happened Coincidentally, another woman was also brutally killed in her home on another Molenstraat, this one in Hellevoetsluis. The police found the 61-year-old woman beheaded in her home Sources told various Dutch media that he had his mother’s head in the car The Netherlands’ experiment with regulated cannabis production has entered a new, crucial phase. From today, all coffeeshops in the ten participating municipalities are only allowed to sell cannabis grown by regulated cultivators. They can still sell tolerated hash bought through the “back door” for the time being This involves almost 80 coffeeshops in Almere This is a big step because it puts an end to the tolerance policy - in which coffeeshops were allowed to sell cannabis but authorities turned a blind eye to where they got their supply because cultivation was illegal - in these municipalities Popular legal types of weed are not always available After coffeeshops raised the alarm about supply issues in the run-up to this next step in the experiment the government decided to allow the sale of illegal hash for a few more months we will have a serious problem,” Esmeijer said about the cannabis supply “Then we have empty shelves and we fear that street trading and nuisance will increase.” The supply concerns stem from only five of the ten regulated growers being fully operational The rest are still starting up or haven’t even started cultivating yet Some struggled to find a suitable location and the search and screening of investors took longer than expected Growers also had trouble opening bank accounts “The intention was to start this new phase with more growers so I understand the concerns of the coffeeshops,” Rick Bakkers of Hollandse Hoogtes The company started with 15 people six months ago and has since grown to 140 employees working in the cultivation halls in Bemmel Hollandse Hoogtes supplies around 200 kilograms per week Bakker thinks that the active growers can supply enough cannabis for now Sign In Register Louise Suzanne Heerema (Natte) age 44 years a resident of Thunder Bay passed away at the TBRHSC on Friday while attending teacher’s college in Rotterdam Louise met her husband Jesse while he was playing hockey in Amsterdam They married in 2009 and moved to Thunder Bay and a loving aunt to her nieces in Holland Her family and children were her focus and meant everything to her She loved making crafts and had a keen eye for fashion and interior decorating She also enjoyed her summers back in Holland with the kids at her family’s summerhouse in Hellevoetsluis Many fond memories were made with family and friends at the beach there Louise was a passionate hockey mom and loved going to the rink to watch her children’s hockey games She loved celebrating birthdays and holidays and always ensured those occasions were memorable ones Words cannot describe how much she will be missed She is lovingly remembered by her spouse Jesse Also survived by in-laws Geri and Harold Heerema Louise was predeceased by her father Jacob Cornelis Natte 2022 at 1:00 pm at the Sargent & Son Funeral Court Street with Suzanne Quirion presiding Should friends desire and in lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the TBRHSF - Northern Cancer Fund This is a big celebratory weekend for the Netherlands. Friday is the kickoff of Carnival season in Noord-Brabant and Limburg. Kids in parts of the country will also visit houses with songs and lanterns to celebrate Sint Maarten. And tomorrow, Sinterklaas will make his national arrival in Hellevoetsluis - if he can find a way around his steamboat sinking Countless people took a day off on Friday to celebrate the 11th of the 11th the kick-off of the Carnival season in the south of the Netherlands The station square in Roermond is filled with colorfully dressed and painted revelers who will enjoy a variety of Limburg “vastelavoes” artists all day from 11:11 a.m Roermond is the epicenter of the Limburg Carnival and expects 15,500 paying guests people mainly visit the pubs and squares in their hometowns There will be no province-wide kick-off of the season on the Parade in the Brabant capital Den Bosch a heaving mass of red-white-yellow Carnivalists started partying at 11:11 a.m the Grote Markt is the place to be from 4:11 p.m The new prince will be introduced at 5:11 p.m. Other Brabant cities will also fall under the Carnival spell on Friday children will celebrate Sint Maarten by going door-to-door with lanterns and singing a song in exchange for a treat The annual festival is mainly celebrated in Noord-Holland and the north of the country The origin of the November 11 tradition is not entirely clear it was a begging party for the less fortunate and Switzerland also celebrate the festival The weather will be perfect for the lantern parade on Friday evening The service expects no rain and temperatures of around 10 degrees so children don’t have to worry abou their lanterns blowing away The weather for Sinterklaas’s arrival party in Hellevoetsluis on Saturday will be dry the weather will also be nice at the smaller arrival parties Sunshine and little wind are expected for almost the entire country Temperatures will range between 13 degrees in the north and 16 or 17 degrees in Limburg The regional arrival parties happening on Sunday can also expect nice weather And maximums will be between 13 and 16 degrees Police in the Rotterdam district of Hoogvliet fired at two suspects during a high-speed 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made any sense at all you’re probably a Torquinian of a certain age Younger readers may well be totally bewildered by all these names from the past Names tell us a great deal about our history and how the Bay has changed We often need to make educated guesses at why a place is known by a certain name particularly if we go way back into the past all placenames meant something to our ancestors and their study offers a great deal of information on how we got here Local place names have come to us through the dialects of the Celts and the Modern English of the past few centuries it’s only in the past 500 years that we would really see English as something we would understand today Some South Devon place names have Dumnonian Brittonic Celtic origins from before 800AD Tor means ‘rocky hill’; Dart is ‘oak stream’; Kent is 'land on the edge'; Teign is ‘stream’; Exe is ‘full of fish’; Lemon the river that flows past Newton Abbot’s ASDA The majority of the names of our present-day communities come from the time of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of the South West This dialect is known as Old English and dates from 450AD to 1150AD and we can break them down to make a bit more sense we may have someone’s name informing us of their link to the settlement probably named after an Anglo-Saxon and so we have Cocca's settlement; Paignton is Paiga’s settlement; Preston around 1250 the abbots of Torre Abbey spotted a business opportunity and were given the right to hold a Wednesday market at a nearby river crossing Or the settlement might be known for its location or what grew there the location of an Iron Age fort; Berry Pomeroy the fortified place of the Pomeroy family; Warberries The 1086 Domesday Book records ‘Carsewelle’ which means spring where watercress grows Watercress was an important medieval food and medicine The land was owned by the King and so we have ‘the King’s watercress spring’ Nearby is another watercress spring, this one was owned by Torre Abbey We mentioned earlier that Tor means ‘rocky hill’ in the Celtic language.  The beginnings of what became Torquay were around the outcrop by Tor Hill Road Possibly dating back to at least the sixth century ‘Torra’ was later recorded in Domesday as the manor of Torre held by William the Usher the manor needed a more precise name.  And so we have Tor Brewer when held by William Brewer It was William who founded Torre Abbey in 1196 William's daughter Alice married Reginald de Mohun (1185-1213) giving us Tor Mohun But we still weren’t known as Torquay or Torbay We know this as both quay and bay are French words and come from the Middle English that was spoken between 1150 and 1500 The first record we have of the future resort by name is from when the Catholic martyr Cuthbert Mayne was drawn and quartered in 1577 Instructions were given that a “quarter” of his body be put on a pole at a place called “Torquay” the site of the recently disestablished Catholic Torre Abbey was presumably chosen to make a political point It would be another 200 years before Torquay achieved an equivalent outside interest ‘Torrebay’ similarly isn’t recorded before 1401 there often weren’t even fixed spellings for places across the Bay and Tor Quay; while Paignton is in Domesday in 1086 as Peintone the arrival of the railways ended that flexibility. A railway station serving Torquay opened in 1848 with one closer to Abbey Sands and another at Paignton in 1859 How names are pronounced and how they should be spelt can still cause debate even today there is an inconsequential railway crossing For decades there has been disagreement on whether this is Lowes Bridge or Lawes Bridge a passerby was asked whose land it was and the heavily accented local replied with something that sounded like, “That be Mr Law” The surveyors wrote down what they had been told This wasn’t particularly important until we built a new hospital nearby in 1928 As we know that the Hengrave Estate Lodge was occupied by Mr The railway transformed Torquay and a decision was made early on to market the resort as a premier destination for the Empire’s elite and their international counterparts. A ‘Little London’ with similar architecture and amenities to the capital was then created Part of the growing town was even renamed Belgravia to make an explicit parallel the hotels were given appropriately impressive names The founders of nineteenth-century Torquay were a few families whose names live on even though few remember their contribution The Haldon family began to withdraw in 1885 and had gone by 1914; the Cary family had been at Torre Abbey since 1662 but departed in 1930; Cockington's Mallocks had been here since 1654 but also sold their estate to the Torquay Corporation in 1932 They left behind a legacy of streets and parks named after themselves and their family members died fighting for the King at Newbury during the Civil War in 1643 He is remembered in Falkland Road and Lucius Street.  Even recently introduced names can cause bafflement In December 1989 the Hellevoetsluis Way dual carriageway opened as a way to recognise Torbay’s twinning with the Dutch town and means ‘Lock at the foot of the Helle’ it still causes pronunciation challenges for both residents and visitors If saying Hellevoetsluis has caused anybody any awkwardness note that there’s someone in Holland at this very moment trying to pronounce ‘Paignton’ " + $(".testo_articolo").html().replace(//g please subscribe and support local journalism Subscribing will allow you access to all of our premium content and archived articles To continue reading this article for FREE,please kindly register and/or log in Registration is absolutely 100% FREE and will help us personalise your experience on our sites You can also sign up to our carefully curated newsletter(s) to keep up to date with your latest local news Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez Image: Al Macphee / Miracle PR and Event Photography Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm The Spanish police are investigating the death of a Dutch woman on the island of Gran Canaria The woman was found dead next to the swimming pool of a vacation villa on Sunday morning a tourist town on the southwest coast of the island Emergency services responded to the villa around 10:15 a.m Spanish newspaper El Pais reports that there is currently not enough evidence to prove the Dutch woman was killed in a crime An autopsy will be done on her body on Monday People in neighboring villas told the police that they heard an argument in the villa where the Dutch woman and her partner were staying So far no information about the Dutch woman's or her partner's identity were released The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not yet receive notification of the Dutch woman's death on Sunday night