Overview

• The Landgericht Braunschweig convicted the man of manslaughter for the January killing in Kreis Peine.
• Judges found he shot the 62-year-old with a blank-firing pistol, struck her with a rubber hammer, and then strangled her with a bathrobe belt.
• The 8.5-year term matched the prosecutor’s request, while the victim’s counsel sought ten years and the defense argued for no more than seven.
• The defendant, who uses a wheelchair, maintained through his lawyer that he could not recall the crucial period around the killing.
• The court said he later attempted suicide in a car crash and survived after multiple emergency surgeries, and the verdict is not yet final with an appeal possible.