Overview

• Prosecutor Matthias Enzler requested life sentences for the admitted instigator and the alleged Bulgarian hitman on charges of attempted murder.
• He asked for ten years and three months for the daughter’s partner and seven and a half years for the daughter, who both deny involvement.
• The 58-year-old’s counsel argued for a nine-and-a-half-year term, defense teams for the other three defendants sought acquittals, and the alleged killer remained silent throughout the trial.
• The daughter spoke publicly late in the proceedings, saying her mother asked her boyfriend to kill the victim, though prosecutors still consider her partly culpable.
• Prosecutors cite greed after a spent lottery windfall as the motive, and the victim survived a nighttime axe and knife attack in his garden in Odelzhausen.