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About six months after the fatal end of a dating portal acquaintance in Leipzig, a 40-year-old has been convicted of murder.
A criminal chamber at the Leipzig Regional Court sentenced the man to life imprisonment.
"You murdered a woman for deeply selfish reasons," said the presiding judge, Johann Jagenlauf.
In the process, the trained painter and varnisher admitted to having strangled the 43-year-old in her apartment on December 27 last year.
The two met in 2021 through an online dating service and had a changeable relationship.
According to the verdict, the victim ended it after a few weeks.
"They didn't want to let anyone else have the woman they wanted," said the judge.
In the period that followed, the accused repeatedly pursued the victim and her new partner and also punctured the man's car tires.
Under the pretext of a final, clarifying conversation, the accused met the victim one day after Christmas in his apartment, the verdict said.
After another rebuff, he consistently implemented his plan to kill the 43-year-old.
The woman was physically completely inferior.
She died after a minute-long agony.
The chamber considered the murder criteria of suspicion and defenselessness as well as base motives as fulfilled.
Defense asked for ten years imprisonment
The court followed the sentencing of the public prosecutor's office in the assessment.
The defense had asked for a ten-year prison sentence for manslaughter.
The verdict is not yet final and the defendant's lawyer announced that he would like to consider an appeal.
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