After almost 50 blows and stabs with hammer and screwdriver, the victim was dead. A man is said to be behind bars for life.
Motive for the murder: a tax matter.
Karlsruhe - Life imprisonment for a cruel act of blood: On Wednesday, the Karlsruhe district court convicted a 43-year-old for murder with a hammer and screwdriver.
The court saw it as proven that the Turkish defendant killed his 51-year-old ex-business partner last December in a wooded area near Mühlacker (Enzkreis) "with an absolute will to annihilate".
The victim died after nearly 50 blows and stings.
The offender's motive, according to the court: He wanted to eliminate a witness in a tax proceeding.
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The co-accused German partner was acquitted.
It has not been proven that the 49-year-old knew about the murder plans of her fiancé.
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Before the act, there had been an audit by the tax office in the bankrupt company of the victim. The 51-year-old wanted to report dubious transactions of the 43-year-old to the authority. A tax evasion in the millions was in the room. To discuss the problem, the two men met in a forest parking lot. The defendant tried to dissuade the 51-year-old from revealing himself to the tax office.
When this did not succeed, he suddenly stabbed his victim with a screwdriver and hit him on the head with a hammer until he was sure that his victim was dead.
The court noted 47 blows and stitches, 39 of them on the head.
The 51-year-old had no chance to escape.
"The victim should be eliminated in the tax proceedings," the presiding judge Fernando Sanchez-Hermosilla was convinced.
After the fact, the defendant put his former business partner in the trunk of the car.
One witness noticed the blood-smeared rear of the car.
According to the court, the defendant "in principle" admitted to having killed the 51-year-old before the trial began.
The judge commented on his statements about the crime as follows: “That is all a lie.” The defendant is the father of two children, one he and the ex-wife of the victim have.
With the sentence, the court complied with the pleading of the public prosecutor's office and the accessory prosecution.
According to the court, his defense lawyers had not spoken out in favor of imprisonment for more than ten years for manslaughter.
In the end, both the prosecution and the defense pleaded for acquittal for the co-accused partner.
At the beginning of the trial, the prosecutors assumed that the woman was involved in the crime.
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