Overview

• The Offenburg regional court sentenced a 43-year-old former patient to life in prison for murdering his pregnant psychotherapist and found a particular severity of guilt.
• Judges in Offenburg also reserved preventive detention for the dual national, and the verdict has not yet become final.
• Prosecutors said the victim was stabbed 38 times near her workplace, and reports note the defendant previously served a long prison term in France for a killing.
• In Munich, the court gave life terms to the ex-wife who admitted commissioning the attack and to the hired assailant for attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm, and it imposed ten years each on the daughter and her partner, exceeding the prosecution’s request for the daughter.
• The Munich panel judged the scheme to be greed-driven with ties to Bulgaria, and the victim survived a night-time axe attack as an earlier poisoning attempt was alleged.