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Jean-Claude Van Espen was a Belgian judge assigned to the reopened investigation of the Christine Van Hees murder from 1984 after Michel Nihoul was named as a suspect in 1996. |
Jean-Claude Van Espen was a Belgian judge assigned to the reopened investigation of the Christine Van Hees murder from 1984 after Jean-Michel Nihoul was named as a suspect in 1996. Van Espen was a close friend and business partner of Nihoul but failed to recuse himself from the case. His conflict of interest was brought to light by a journalist two years later, in 1998, at which point he finally stepped down from the case.1
Footnotes
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Dovey, S. (2023). Eye of the Chickenhawk. United States: Thehotstar. ↩︎