Overview

• In the retrial over the 2022 death of student Hanna W. in Aschau, court psychologist Max Steller told the Traunstein court he found no indicators of truthfulness in a key fellow-inmate’s account of an alleged confession, intensifying scrutiny of the witness.
• The Hagen regional court sentenced a defendant, who was 14 at the time of a 2022 home invasion, to four years and six months youth imprisonment for bodily harm resulting in death after an 80-year-old victim later died of complications; the verdict is not yet final.
• Vienna prosecutors have applied for pretrial detention for a 50-year-old suspected of fatally shooting his 33-year-old neighbor in a stairwell, with a court decision expected Tuesday, as investigators note conflicting statements and no knife recovered so far.
• Near Freiburg, a 58-year-old is in custody on suspicion of killing his eight-year-old daughter after forcing entry into his ex-wife’s home; police fired through a window during the intervention, and an autopsy result is pending.
• In Nuremberg, police said a 55-year-old wounded during a September 22 dispute in shared housing has died in hospital weeks later, and investigators are continuing proceedings against a 35-year-old arrested shortly after the incident.