Overview
- Judges ordered the 23-year-old to be compensated for time he spent in custody.
- The Bundesgerichtshof had overturned a 2024 conviction that imposed nine years of youth imprisonment because of a procedural error.
- The retrial, which concluded faster than expected, was held in the Laufen district court for space reasons.
- Doubts about a key witness’s credibility led to the defendant’s release before the new proceedings began.
- The case centered on conflicting accounts of a sexually motivated attack versus an accidental fall and injuries while drifting after Hanna was found dead in the River Prien in October 2022.