The court in Amsterdam sentenced a 31-year-old man to 180 hours of community service and a suspended prison sentence of two months for scamming at least 18 home seekers through the Kamernet website and Facebook. The man offered non-existent or unavailable rooms to rent and then disappeared after the prospective tenants paid their down payments, totalling around €21,000.

A man who had been employed as a nurse at a nursing home was ordered to serve 24 months of probation after admitting to abuse of a woman in his care who died eight days later.