Patrick Soultana

Patrick Soultana
Born	(1977-01-01) January 1, 1977 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Conviction(s)	Murder
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment plus 25 years
Details
Victims	2–5
Span of crimes	2010–2011
Country	Netherlands
Date apprehended	October 12, 2011

Patrick Soultana (born January 1, 1977 in Amsterdam) is a convicted Dutch serial killer. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on July 25, 2013 for two murders and one attempted murder. In December 2014, he was resentenced to 25 years plus provision after an appeal.

Victims

Farida Zargar

Farida Nadjiebullovna Zargar (born in 1988 in Kemerovo, Russia) was stabbed several times and then strangled by Soultana on August 5, 2010. Soultana declared to a witness that he intended to rob Zargar, but that he killed her because she started screaming. On November 9, 2010 Soultana threw the bank card and identifier of Zargar through the letterbox of a police station in Spijkenisse. The camera images were later broadcast in Opsporing Verzocht, but Soultana was not recognized. On November 26, 2010, Zargar's bicycle was found in Mallebos and on March 8, 2011 her key ring was also found. After Soultana's arrest, several items belonging to Zargar were found in his bedroom, including her passport, watch and bracelet, with blood traces being on some of them. After Soultana killed his victim, he sawed off her foot and buried it in a pot under his shed, burying Zargar's body in Mallebos afterwards. On November 11, 2011, Zargar's body was found, by pointing from Soultana.

Nanda Kerklaan

Nanda Kerklaan (born 1966) was found in a ditch at the Malledijk in Spijkenisse in the morning of January 28, 2010. She was badly injured and was barely conscious due to a head wound and severe hypothermia. She was resuscitated on the spot and transported to the hospital. After being examined, she appeared to have multiple cranial fractures, four broken ribs and a collapsed lung. According to a forensics doctor it was due to considerable external violence. On February 2, 2010, Kerklaan died of her injuries, without being able to tell what had happened to her. The police stated to the media that the possible cause was an accident. Soultana, however, confessed to an informant that before the Zargar case, he killed Kerklaan after he had tried to rob her.

Polish man

Together with a friend, then 21-year-old Timothy S., on March 24, 2011 Soultana robbed a Polish man from Włocławek. In doing so, both men hit the man on the head several times with an iron bar, took his belongings and left him for dead. The man, however, survived the attack. Both perpetrators were convicted of attempted murder. Timothy S. was also a co-suspect in Kerklaan's murder, but was acquitted.

Suspected victims

Joke Lorsé

In 2014 suspicion arose that Soultana is also the killer of 50-year-old Joke Lorsé on August 11, 2009. In Simonshaven, the woman was beaten to death with a blunt weapon while walking with her husband. Her husband explained that an unknown man jumped out of the bushes and knocked him unconscious. After he recovered, his wife laid dead beside him. However, the statement was dismissed by the police. The husband Ernst L. was sentenced to 12 years in prison but appealed to 9 years.

Two unknowns

Soultana allegedly stated to a police informant that he had killed five women. Besides Zargar, Kerklaan and possibly Lorsé, two more women should be victims of Soultana according to the police.

Arrest and conviction

Soultana was arrested on October 12, 2011 after a street robbery. Because money was stolen from his victim, authorities were entitled to search Soultana's house. In the bedroom, officers found 447 items of suspected victims, including several blood-stained items from Farida Zargar. As a result, Soultana came into the picture as a suspect of Zargar's murder. During his stay in a penitentiary in The Hague, Soultana told a police informant that he killed five women. Police had evidence to connect Soultana to the murders of Zargar and Kerklaan, but could not connect him to any further murders. Soultana was sentenced to life imprisonment on July 25, 2013 for the killings of Zargar and Kerklaan, and the attempted murder of the Polish man. Furthermore, he was also convicted for the possession of child pornography and the commission of a large number of robberies. In December 2014, he was give a new sentence of 25 years after an appeal.

On February 19, 2014, Soultana confessed to The Hague Court of Appeal involvement in the murder of Zargar, to the surprise of the Advocate General. He stated that he had been there, but that he did not use violence himself.

See also

• List of serial killers by country

Notes

Police resumes investigation into Patrick Soultana on Nieuwsopbeeld.nl consulted on June 15, 2020
Prison sentence for 'henchman' of Patrick Soultana on Trouw.nl, consulted on January 14, 2014
Patrick Soultana sentenced to life on Crimesite.nl, consulted on January 14, 2014