Overview

• Testifying on Wednesday at the Landgericht Traunstein, the former fellow inmate said the defendant told him in late 2022 he struck Hanna unconscious and threw her into the Prien.
• The witness had been the chief accuser in the first trial, whose preliminary credibility doubts later led the court to free the now 23-year-old from pretrial detention in June.
• Prosecutors continue to press a murder case, alleging a sexual motive and that the victim drowned after being thrown into the stream.
• The defense maintains the death was an accident and rejects the account attributed to the defendant.
• The retrial spans 26 scheduled hearing days in a larger courtroom at the Amtsgericht Laufen, with a verdict planned around December 19.