A court in Utrecht sentenced a 47-year-old Georgian man to eight years in prison for the violent rape of a woman and an attempted rape in Zeist, as well as attempted sexual assault in Bunschoten-Spakenburg. He was barred from contacting the victims and from entering both municipalities for five years, and must pay them thousands of euros in compensation.

The court found that he raped a woman in a Zeist forest after assaulting and threatening her. It also found that he had tried to force another woman toward the forest earlier that day, and had later attempted to assault a woman near Bunschoten-Spakenburg. The man said he did not remember the rape, but the court concluded he was responsible, citing DNA evidence and security-camera footage that helped police identify him.