Overview

• The accused acknowledged the killing in December during questioning and reiterated key admissions at the trial’s start in the Landgericht Coburg.
• Prosecutors dispute parts of his account, citing shifting statements and saying he concedes only what investigators have already established.
• The indictment alleges he lured the 40-year-old to his apartment on 30 November 2024, strangled her with a cable from behind and then violated the corpse.
• According to the case file, he kept the body temporarily in a storage room before placing it on 2 December in a container on THW premises, where police later discovered it after a missing-person search.
• A court-cited expert considers the defendant fully culpable, and five hearings are scheduled through 19 September, when a verdict could be delivered.