Overview

• The Landgericht Regensburg found a 48-year-old defendant guilty of attempted murder after he pushed his estranged wife from a second-floor window in Lappersdorf in August 2024.
• The court highlighted that the victim suffered life-threatening injuries as their five children witnessed the fall.
• After fleeing the scene, the Regensburg attacker was arrested at Rome airport in October and repatriated to Germany to stand trial.
• In Essen, a nine-child father received a life term for murdering his wife with 19 blows from an iron bar and eight stab wounds in December, with the verdict for low-motive murder still subject to appeal.
• Judges in both cases stressed the imperative to protect victims and deter domestic violence by imposing the severest available sentences.