Great pumpkin on trial in Belgium for love-triangle parachute murder
A young Belgian schoolteacher went on trial for murder Friday, accused of killing her rival in a skydiving love-triangle by disabling her parachute.
Els Clottemans, 26, is standing jury trial in the northeast town of Tongres for four weeks for the death of 38-year-old Els Van Doren, the wife of a jeweller who shared a passion with the suspect for skydiving, as well as for the same man, Marcel Somers.
The trial caps the November 18, 2006 death of Van Dorens, a mother of three and experienced skydiver who plunged to her death when her parachute failed to open.
Els Clottemans, 26, is standing jury trial in the northeast town of Tongres for four weeks for the death of 38-year-old Els Van Doren, the wife of a jeweller who shared a passion with the suspect for skydiving, as well as for the same man, Marcel Somers.
The trial caps the November 18, 2006 death of Van Dorens, a mother of three and experienced skydiver who plunged to her death when her parachute failed to open.
