"At no time did I threaten his wife and/or the children" - Mother of Mike De Decker refutes allegations made by Kim Huybrechts

The feud in the Belgian darts world between Kim Huybrechts and Mike De Decker continues to reverberate. Now De Decker's mother has also given her account of the facts.

Earlier this week, a video surfaced in which Huybrechts had a fight with De Decker. Huybrechts was fined by the PDC for this. "It's never nice to be taken to task for such things and receive a penalty," Huybrechts responded. "I have many regrets when I see those images. But there are two sides to every story, and I want to tell my side. First of all, my reaction was wrong at all times. You should never have physical contact with someone when you have an argument. The video in question cannot be justified; it went black before my eyes. But that has its reasons."

"My wife had put a post online expressing her disappointment that Mike had said things behind my back on the Tour that had come to my ears. I hadn't addressed him on that at the time because I just wanted to avoid confrontation. (laughs cynically) Then someone from Mike's family called my wife with threats, also to my children. As a father you always want to protect your family, especially when you hear things like that. Then I snapped. I should never have reacted like that, I was rightly reprimanded for that. But when it comes to my family I am quite sensitive."

But Tamara Gauwe, De Decker's mother, denies via a post on Facebook that she made threats to Huybrechts' family. "If Kim is going to make the same threats to Mike that he did to Dimitri, he's not going to get away with it," she said. "That's exactly the threat I made to Dana," she said.

"At no time did I threaten or name her and/or the children. That she makes a different story out of it afterwards, that's up to her. Anyone who knows me knows that I am straightforward, sometimes too crude, but I am not a liar. Everyone believes what they want, I know I can look at myself in the mirror. I will always stand up for my son if he is wronged."