Overview
- Prosecutors allege the 23-year-old struck his 58-year-old author mother as she slept on her houseboat in Moorfleet on April 22, causing fatal open craniocerebral trauma.
- The Hamburg Regional Court opened the case on November 4 on a murder charge that the prosecution frames as committed with treachery.
- A preliminary expert opinion indicates legal incapacity due to a severe mental disorder, shifting the case into a Sicherungsverfahren to weigh confinement in a psychiatric hospital.
- The presiding chamber said it may exclude the public for the parties’ closing pleas and the defendant’s final words.
- The son initially called police claiming he found his mother injured and was arrested on May 6 in Rothenburgsort after evidence pointed to him, with police reporting no resistance.