Leipzig/Dresden (dpa/sn) - The sentence of life imprisonment against two women and two men in a murder trial in Dresden is final. The fifth criminal senate of the Federal Court of Justice based in Leipzig on Tuesday rejected the appeal against the judgment of the Dresden Regional Court. This had found the four accused Germans guilty of murdering a man in 2022. According to the verdict, one of the accused women was married to the murder victim but was pregnant with twins by another man. She therefore did not want her husband to become the legal father of the children.
In addition, the accused feared that her husband would claim custody of their child, the judgment said. That is why she and the three other accused lured the man to a place in Grossenhain in the Meissen district on June 13, 2020. There they pushed him into a car and drove to a remote wooded area, where they hit and kicked the man, among other things, with a wooden club.
After leaving the man there for the time being, the perpetrators returned. One of the defendants kicked the man in the back of the head and in the face in the evening and dragged him into a ditch. The next day, the defendants returned again and dropped field stones on the victim's head and torso. According to the verdict, the man died of his injuries in the hours that followed. The Dresden Regional Court issued the verdict on February 9, 2022.
