Thirty police officers will be assigned to guard Michelle Martin, the ex-wife and accomplice of the Belgian paedophile killer Marc Dutroux, after the country’s highest court freed her on parole after rejecting the pleas of her victims.
She was expected to leave her Brussels prison cell either on Tuesday night or on Wednesday to serve the remaining 14 years of her 30-year sentence in a convent of the Poor Clare Sisters in Malonne, near the city of Namur.
Martin has been granted conditional early release after serving 16 years in jail as the accomplice of Dutroux, who kidnapped and raped six girls, murdering four of them in horrific circumstances during the 1990s.