Overview

• Landgericht München I convicted Shah S. of attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm, imposing 13 years after a nine-day trial that detailed a forced marriage and controlling behavior.
• The judges found treachery and low motives met yet declined a life term because the wounds, though severe, were not deemed acutely life-threatening.
• The court determined he slashed his wife's face and neck and stabbed her torso with a 20-centimeter kitchen knife before their daughters intervened and she fled bleeding.
• He maintained he was the victim and said she hurt herself with an armlet, a version the presiding judge rejected as fabricated, and he announced plans to seek revision.
• In Mannheim, a 38-year-old received 11½ years for killing her 51-year-old housemate with a metal vase, while a co-defendant got two years nine months for attempted obstruction after helping remove the body.