Work order for attempted banana rape

The Alkmaar Court sentenced three Den Helder fishermen to a 100-hour community work order and a suspended jail term for the attempted rape of a colleague with a banana. The three defendants were sentenced to a four-month suspended jail term and ordered to undergo a 40-hour course teaching them about the feelings of culprits and victims. The court case was launched by the mother of the 29-year-old P. B., of Den Helder. The man claims he was subjected to 12 months of abuse and made to be the "prick on board" the fishing ship De Morgenster. He claimed to have been raped in the anus with a banana, had his public hair burnt and his head shaved. The three male defendants claim the incidents were fisherman`s jokes. B kept a video diary while on board the ship and his three colleagues also made entries into the diary. The defendants described the banana incident and the public hair incident in their diary entries. The victim was undergoing a chef and fisherman`s training course at the time of the incidents and his mother decided to lodge a compliant with police after she saw the video diary entries. The case has led to public unrest in Den Helder and television programme Twee Vandaag reported last week that B`s family has been the subject of threats since the court case started.