Maggot shows contempt and lack of remorse by falling asleep

ALLEGED Belgian child killer Marc Dutroux, who finally went on trial today over a spate of abductions, rapes and murders, apparently drifted off to sleep almost as soon as the case got under way.
While across the country Belgians were gripped by live television coverage of the event, the former electrician was apparently less than riveted by the jury selection proceedings which dominated the first day’s hearing.
“Mr Magnee, I think your client is dozing off,” judge Stephane Goux told Dutroux’s principal lawyer Xavier Magnee, as Dutroux appeared to slump in his seat in the fortress-like Palace of Justice in Arlon, southeastern Belgium.
Dutroux and his three co-defendants are seated in a box protected by bullet-proof glass from the rest of the courtroom.
Dutroux, 47, is standing trial over the 1996 abduction and rape of six schoolgirls, four of whom died, in a spate of atrocities which convulsed Belgium and shocked the world.
The trial, which is likely to last at least two months overall, will begin in earnest only on Wednesday with the first questioning of the defendants.