Overview
- The Landgericht Hamburg found the defendant not criminally responsible due to a schizoaffective disorder that was intensified by drug use.
- He was ordered to be placed permanently in a psychiatric hospital as a security measure rather than sentenced to prison.
- Prosecutors say he struck his sleeping 58-year-old mother multiple times with a blunt instrument on April 22 on her houseboat in Hamburg-Moorfleet, causing fatal head injuries.
- The case was conducted as a non-public Sicherungsverfahren, and the outcome matched the requests of prosecution and defense.
- The victim was identified as author Alexandra Fröhlich, and relatives later discovered her body on the houseboat.