Bavaria: After the death of a teenager: the verdict against speeders is final

Munich (dpa / lby) - The murder verdict against a speeder who killed a 14-year-old in Munich almost three years ago is final.

Bavaria: After the death of a teenager: the verdict against speeders is final

Munich (dpa / lby) - The murder verdict against a speeder who killed a 14-year-old in Munich almost three years ago is final. As the Munich I District Court announced on Monday, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) rejected the man's appeal at the end of June.

The man from the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district had caught the teenager in November 2019 with his car and a speed of at least 122 kilometers per hour when he wanted to cross the street at a bus stop. A friend of the boy who was killed survived injured that evening, and other drivers avoided the wrong-way driver at the last second.

That evening, the driver was on the wrong side of the road as a wrong-way driver fleeing a police check because he had previously coke and thus violated the conditions of probation for another conviction.

He was sentenced to life in prison for murder and four counts of attempted murder in March 2021. The court saw the use of a "dangerous substance" and insidiousness as characteristics of murder. The man's defense had asked for a conviction for an illegal motor vehicle race resulting in death - and criticized for murder.

"This is a murder charge that probably wouldn't have been raised four or five years ago," said the defendant's lawyer in Munich at the start of the trial. "How does one come to assume that our client intentionally wanted to murder people?" An objection that the court did not accept at the time: "We hear the statement "I didn't want to kill him" in almost 90 percent of all jury trials," said the presiding judge at the time in her verdict, which has now been confirmed by the BGH.