Lawyers ask Amsterdam court to reduce sentence of Dutch citizen who sextorted Amanda Todd

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The Dutch man’s Canadian sentence is to be served in the Netherlands after he serves out his original prison term in August next year

a Canadian court handed to a Dutch cyber bully in a notorious case involving a young girl who took her own life in 2012 should be reduced to four-and-a-half years in the Netherlands, a prosecutor in Amsterdam said Thursday.

The Dutch man convicted of sextorting Amanda Todd has been sentenced. What her case and legacy have meant Public prosecutor Kasper van der Schaft told judges that a Dutch court would normally hand a four-year sentence to Coban for the crimes he was convicted for in Canada. But he urged judges to impose an extra six months.

 

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