Overview

• The accused acknowledged through his lawyer that he strangled the 40-year-old with a cable and then sexually assaulted her body.
• Investigators say he lured the THW colleague to his Coburg apartment on November 30, 2024, after earlier advances were rejected.
• Prosecutors contend he has shifted his story and is only conceding facts already established by evidence, and they also charge disturbance of the peace of the dead.
• According to the indictment, he kept the body in a storage room before moving it on December 2 to a container on THW grounds, where police later found it after a missing-person search.
• An expert report deems him fully criminally responsible, the court has set five hearings through September 19 when a verdict could be issued, and the presumption of innocence remains in force.