Belgian House of Horrors!

Brussels, Belgium June 1998:

Police are digging for bodies on Pandy's land.

A Protestant priest in Belgium is suspected of having murdered at least six people and buried them in and around his house in Molenbeek, a suburb to Brussels.

Belgian police has uncovered parts of human skeletons, pieces of a skull, a leg and other parts. "It is a macabre work we're doing." Philippe Moreaux, mayor of Molenbeek, told media, and it could very easily turn out to be a Belgian version of the "house of horrors" in Gloucester, where British police dug up nine bodies in 1994.

British police officer John Bennet, who was in charge of the Gloucester case, where Fredrick and Rosemary West murdered several young women and hid their bodies in their home, is on location to support the Belgian police. An advanced sonar system is being used to try to locate possible hidden rooms in the house and under the floors.

The suspect, 70 years old Andras Pandy, is a priest in the Belgian Protestant church but is originally from Hungary, and it is suspected that he might have tricked Hungarian women to come visiting him and then murdered them.

Between 1986 and 1989 his two ex-wives disappeared together with four of his eight children. He then reported them missing, but later used forged letters to prove that they had moved to Hungary. Police now fears that he has murdered several others apart from his own family.

One of Pandys living children, now 31-years old Agnes, has witnessed about her father placing personals in Hungarian papers to get in touch with new women. According to her he is supposed to have met around twenty women this way. He was looking for a third wife, probably after the murders of his first two. His daughters claims is supported by a retired priest and by the Hungarian Protestant church of Belgium. "Two years ago one of these women, a blond teacher, about 50 years old, came to Belgium and after that no one has ever heard from her." The retired priest Istvan Steszek says.

Andras Pandy also owns two other houses in Belgium, which the police will search, and at the same time Hungarian police is busy searching a house 30 kilometers north of Budapest, which is also owned by Andras Pandy.

Last Wednesday two women told Hungarian newspaper Blikk that they had visited Pandy in Brussels. They claimed that he kept them locked up during their entire visit.

Andras Pandy claims to be totally innocent.