Overview
- On Monday, November 9, 2026 the 39‑year‑old defendant appeared at the Landgericht Berlin on three new charges and his lawyer told the court that allegations tied to two women are fully admitted.
- One prior November 2025 judgment that sentenced him to five and a half years in prison and ordered Sicherungsverwahrung remains legally binding; Sicherungsverwahrung is post‑sentence preventive detention used when a court finds a person dangerous to the public.
- The Bundesgerichtshof has partly overturned the first‑instance ruling in the high‑school graduate case and sent that count back to the lower court because the earlier judgment contained legal errors about the characterization of the injury.
- A full forensic review of the defendant’s mobile phone produced video recordings that expanded the indictments and the current charges allege crimes from 2014, 2022 and 2023, including drugging, an attempted rape of a sleeping woman, and a rape with serious strangulation counted also as dangerous bodily harm.
- Court reporting has criticized police handling in the Abiturientin case and highlighted the victim’s family persistence in prompting further probes; hearings in the new trial are scheduled through December 4, 2026 and could affect how remaining counts and preventive detention are applied.