Filmmaker's accused killer ignored pleas for mercy
The accused killer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh ignored his victim’s pleas for mercy and calmly shot him at close range before slitting his throat, prosecutors said today at the first public hearing in the murder case.
In the most detailed description yet of the killing, prosecutors gave an account of the morning of November 2, when Van Gogh was shot while cycling to work in a residential Amsterdam neighbourhood where investigators collected 53 eyewitness accounts.
