Wednesday, 19. November 2003

Marc Dutroux had romantic correspondence with 15-year-old girl from his prison cell


A fresh scandal over Belgium's handling of the paedophile Marc Dutroux erupted yesterday after it was revealed that he was for two years allowed to correspond romantically with a 15-year-old girl from his prison cell.

Dutroux, who is awaiting trail accused of kidnapping and abusing six girls aged between eight and 19 in the mid 1990s and of murdering four of them, wrote to the girl, Isabelle D in Brussels, between 1996 and 1998, styling himself her mentor and boyfriend.

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