As of: March 5, 2024, 7:31 p.m
By: Isabel Winklbauer
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Kevin G. with his lawyer at the start of the trial at the Munich I Regional Court. © Sigi Jantz
Kevin G. killed his mother with a hand axe, set his house on fire and possessed child pornography images.
Now he has to face ten years in prison - or indefinite placement in a psychiatric clinic.
The defendant “decided… to smash his mother’s head in with an ax.
... With an absolute will to destroy, he now began from behind ... to hit the neck, face and head of the victim with the ax." While prosecutor Johanna Heidrich reads out the worst parts of the indictment, Kevin G. (21) bends low over a piece of paper and plays around with a pen.
The 21-year-old from Martinsried near Planegg slaughtered his mother with 23 ax blows over a year ago and then set a fire in the basement of his home.
Finally, the police got him from a construction site crane from which he didn't dare jump to his death.
The officers also found thousands of child pornography drawings on the computer of the manga and computer game fan, who lives in isolation and suffers from depression.
The trial for murder, arson and possession of child pornography began yesterday before the Munich I Regional Court.
Kevin G. wanted to jump from this crane.
He didn't dare - and now has to answer for his actions.
© Marcus Schlaf
The presiding judge Stefan Kirchinger had a somewhat difficult time finding out how the unimaginable act occurred in January 2023.
On the one hand, Kevin G. had lied to his parents for months.
Apparently he was looking for training and was on sick leave, he said, so that his parents, unaware, received 6,000 euros in child benefit without authorization.
This lie threatened to be exposed on the day of the crime through a demand for reimbursement from the family fund.
On the other hand, a move was imminent; the parents had almost finished packing to move to Deggendorf.
“But I'm not a big fan of change,” says Kevin G., who quietly and matter-of-factly tells everything he can about himself the whole time.
However, at the start of the trial he was unable to explain why he carried out the triple suicide, which had been planned for a long time but had never dared - he had actually wanted to kill his parents and then himself for months - in the absence of his father.
Just this much: “I was full of adrenaline.
I was panicking.
And I wanted to die in my home.”
Since Kevin G. has a psychiatric history, including being an inpatient at the Fünfseen Clinic, his public defender Ömer Sahinci is certain: “The young man needs help.
The maximum penalty for murder under juvenile law is ten years.
But our goal would be placement in a psychiatric hospital.
“Probably in Haar.” Depending on whether the court orders a minimum time for him to stay there, the doctors would ultimately decide when he would be released again.
There are nine more days of trial scheduled, with a verdict scheduled for April 17th.