Overview

• In Göttingen, a husband received life imprisonment for fatally stabbing his 34-year-old wife at least 23 times as she sat on a sofa, a verdict the court confirmed as legally final.
• The Göttingen court reported that the couple’s four children were awakened by screams and partially witnessed the attack, and it found the husband acted from the belief he could better raise them.
• In Frankfurt, a former federal police officer was sentenced to life for the treacherous murder of his 23-year-old girlfriend, whom he shot in her kitchen in May 2024 in Weilrod.
• Presiding judge Jörn Immerschmitt described the Frankfurt killing as a spontaneous act following a dispute likely tied to the defendant’s alcohol use, and the court rejected his claim of an accidental discharge.
• The Frankfurt Schwurgericht followed the prosecution’s call for a life term after reclassifying the case from manslaughter to murder during trial, and the judgment is not yet legally final.