Deggendorf (dpa / lby) - In the retrial for the killing of a 20-year-old woman from Freyung in Lower Bavaria in October 2016, the public prosecutor at the Deggendorf district court pleaded for the accused to be convicted of murder. He called for the determination of the particular severity of the guilt. He is convinced that the 28-year-old stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in her apartment while she was sleeping. That means the murder characteristic of insidiousness, prosecutor Stefan Brunner said on Monday. He also proceeded from base motives.
The defendant took advantage of the suspicion and defenselessness of the sleeping person, did not accept the separation and wanted to enforce his will to power and claim ownership, and wanted to ensure that he was "the last one" with postmortem intercourse. In addition, he had consumed vodka before the crime so that he could later argue that he was not guilty and began preparing to escape just a few hours after the crime. The defendant behaved in a particularly indifferent manner towards the victim.
In a first trial before the district court of Passau, the accused was finally sentenced to twelve years in prison for manslaughter in 2017. In May 2022, the current retrial began. This had become possible because in the first trial two witnesses had made false statements in favor of the accused. They were finally sentenced to suspended sentences in 2019.
