A teenage girl brutally stabbed to death by a migrant in a murder that has sent shockwaves through the Netherlands was a highly intelligent middle-class student who had recently graduated from high school, we can reveal.
Known only by her first name Lisa, the 17-year-old had been enjoying a night out in Amsterdam with her friends when she decided to ride her electric bike home to the small village of Abcoude.
Around halfway through her journey, she noticed a man was following her, causing her to call the police to alert them she was being stalked and harassed.
But tragically by the time Dutch police officers arrived at the well-trodden cycle path just after 4am, they found her body lying in a ditch, surrounded by water, with fatal stab wounds to her neck.
Within 48 hours a suspect was arrested at a refugee centre, a ten-minute walk from where she was found, held on suspicion of murder – and for the rape of another woman days earlier.
