Boscher tries to relieve his partner at the last minute.

DEN BOSCH - The 44-year-old Den Boscchenaar who was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for the manslaughter of Ad van Boxtel (64) and murder of his handicapped housemate Karin Simons (34) yesterday identified his drug dealer as the perpetrator.The Bosschenaar had invoked his right to remain silent for two and a half years.On the flagrush, Friday the court closes the appeal hearing, he still made a statement. He believed he could thus unburden his partner (37). The latter was also sentenced to eighteen years. The court found it proven that the addicted couple killed Van Boxtel in his home on the Steve Bikostraat in Den Bosch and then strangled his roommate in their car. Her remains were found in Kerkwijk.

The Bosch man said yesterday that his partner was sleeping in a caravan they were squatting in when his dealer called him and asked him to come to the Biko Street area. The dealer then turned out to have already committed the murders, the Bosschenaar said. Chairman Tuijn then showed him a picture from a gas station surveillance camera where the woman can be seen. That photo was taken at a time when, according to her partner, the woman was sleeping.

With that, the bottom immediately fell out from under the accusation against the dealer.