Overview

• The 39-year-old defendant is on trial at the Landgericht Hamburg on charges of manslaughter and bodily injury.
• Prosecutors say she was not criminally responsible due to mental illness and have applied for long-term placement in a psychiatric hospital.
• According to the indictment, the 83-year-old, demented grandmother was fatally injured on March 12 after being knocked down and stabbed multiple times, with an autopsy citing fatal blood loss.
• About a month earlier, the defendant allegedly assaulted a caregiver in the building, rendering her unconscious and injuring her with a glass bottle and shard.
• Police detained the woman on March 13 at Neuwiedenthaler Teich for erratic behavior involving small fires, and a judge ordered her admission to a psychiatric clinic the next day.