Life sentence for the Neutraubling murderer – “Inhuman will to destroy”

Created: 05/12/2022, 16:54

By: Michael Bothner

He killed his partner with 24 stab wounds.

The regional court in Regensburg sent the 37-year-old to life imprisonment for murder.

Regensburg – life imprisonment – ​​that is the verdict in the Neutraublinger murder trial.

As reported, a 37-year-old had to answer to the Regensburg Regional Court for killing his partner (27), whom he had stabbed 24 times.

Man kills partner: "In moments like this, hatred comes"

The perpetrator and the victim have known each other since 2012.

In 2018 they became a couple.

Until then, it was said to have been the woman who kept jealously squinting at his loves and acquaintances.

From then on it was the accused who was never left in peace by the thought of his partner's two former lovers – two cousins ​​who were close to him.

This knowledge about the cousins ​​is destroying him, according to one of the numerous chats that the jury chamber evaluated in order to reconstruct the crime.

"It's at moments like this that hatred comes." The friend suggested couples therapy.

The defendant has another plan.

Mark T. with his lawyer Michael Haizmann.

© Michael Bothner

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Man stabs partner: relationship was always marked by violence

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Michael Hammer speaks of a clear balance of power in the verdict on Wednesday.

The man reserves the right to sleep with others.

If she did something like that, he couldn't say how he would deal with it.

He made that clear in the chat in 2018.

"I have nothing to lose."

The toxic relationship, which is repeatedly characterized by violence, increasingly drives the woman away from her former surroundings.

She keeps in touch with her own family, but closes her doors when they make negative comments about her partner or ask where the bruises come from.

The perpetrator threatened to kill his girlfriend earlier

On one occasion, however, the mother directly realizes how aggressively the accused can act.

In 2020, the 27-year-old reports to her at night and asks if she can come over with her daughter.

Dissolved and scared.

The 37-year-old is said to have threatened to kill her.

He defends himself to his mother on the phone.

He never said he would do anything to the child.

For seven days, the chamber got a comprehensive picture, looking deep into the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim, which was difficult from the start.

On Wednesday, Hammer adds building block to building block and gradually develops a story that ends on February 6 of this year.

The day on which the accused killed the young mother with 24 knife wounds in his apartment in Neutraubling in the presence of her daughter.

Jealousy and the exercise of power: Man kills girlfriend with 24 knife wounds

At the end of last year, the woman wrote an anonymous love letter to a much older neighbor.

At first it was just meant as a joke.

The neighbor is also completely overwhelmed by it and doesn't want to take it seriously at first.

But a close relationship quickly develops.

You write to each other almost every day, especially via Telegram.

The 27-year-old is torn.

The neighbor gives her support, listens to her.

During the week she is with him almost every evening.

The other neighbors begin to rant about it.

Before the murder: perpetrator announces that he will go to prison for 15 years

On Friday, February 4, the accused picked up his partner's daughter from school, as he often did.

At noon he drives to the woman's house to get something.

The neighbors ask the man about his girlfriend's relationship with the 53-year-old neighbor.

The 37-year-old goes crazy.

At home he calls a friend, talks about the unfaithful girlfriend and that he is going to "15 years in prison".

He later threatens the woman, drunk on the phone, to kill her.

Before the murder: Man leaves kitchen knife in bedroom

It ferments in him for two days.

You make a phone call and agree to talk again in peace.

In the other chat, the 53-year-old urges the "love of his life" to finally make a decision, but also warns against going back to Neutraubling.

If something happens, it's her own fault.

On Saturday the woman drives back to Neutraubling.

She takes the threat from the previous day seriously and even looks in the kitchen to see if all the knives are still there.

When exactly the defendant deposited the kitchen knife, with which he later killed her, on the bedroom closet, which was over two meters high, could not really be clarified in court.

Woman slept in bed with daughter – then the murderer struck

Around midnight the woman puts her daughter to bed.

Later she joins them.

The court is convinced that by then she no longer expected an attack on herself.

She may have also felt the presence of her child as a kind of protection.

The accused had therefore - despite the previous events - acted insidiously.

The chamber also sees the murder characteristic of base motives as given.

When the accused comes into the bedroom in the morning - in the blood 3.46 per thousand alcohol - he wants to know from the young woman how often she has cheated.

Then he stabs.

An expert interpreted the blood spatters on the wall as a result of defensive movements.

Man kills partner: "Absolute will to destroy"

The woman runs to the door and turns on the light.

The noise wakes the child up, but continues to pretend to be asleep.

According to the girl, at some point the accused locks the door and throws away the key.

Then he stabs the side of the woman's torso.

The woman stumbles, falls to the ground and remains unconscious.

The accused stabbed the lifeless body several times.

Public prosecutor Kathrin Schilling speaks in her plea of ​​"inhuman will to destroy" with which the man "slaughtered" his partner.

Court: Man kills partner "because she disobeyed"

As announced in a chat in 2018, the court is convinced that he wanted to punish his girlfriend.

He killed her "because she disobeyed, because she broke the rules he imposed," says Hammer.

So he tried to restore the balance of power and his "self-esteem".

For base motives he "sacrifices a human life for his purpose".

In their pleadings, Schilling and the two lawyers Claudia Schenk and Shirin Ameri, representing the co-plaintiffs, also called for the third characteristic of murder: cruelty and the particular severity of the guilt.

The court sees no particular severity of the guilt

During the course of the proceedings, however, the chairman of the chamber pointed out that it had to be a legal assessment, not a moral condemnation.

Yes, committing the act in the presence of the daughter is cruel, admits Hammer - in everyday terms.

Legally, however, the act ultimately does not stand out sufficiently from other comparable cases.

The court therefore sees no sufficient reasons for the particular severity of the guilt.

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