In addition to the questioning of other witnesses and the submission of two reports (we reported), the third day of the hearing brought an admission to the matter which lawyer Yorck Fratzky read on behalf of his client. The 44-year-old defendant described a relationship in which the man had been violently assaulted for more than two years. Joint alcohol consumption has increasingly led to the loss of their independence. She lost her job, had no friends and was sometimes locked in the apartment during the day. Every now and then she fled to a neighbor after being mistreated, but returned to her partner from Russia in 2016 after spending several months in the women’s shelter. If he wasn’t drunk, people were “nice” to each other, said the Irkutsk-born woman, who is accused of attempted murder by the public prosecutor.
The defendant explained that she had no concrete memory of what happened with the cordless screwdriver. The forensic expert attested her an alcohol content of around 1.4 to 2.5 per thousand at the time of the crime, in the case of the 64-year-old man it was 2.4 to 3.4 per thousand. As reported, the appraiser stated that the victim’s injuries were not necessarily likely to cause death. There was an abrasion of the skin with bleeding on the leg and a wound on the head that had to be sutured. There the drill was set at a very acute angle, which was not suitable for penetrating the skull. Accordingly, perhaps when the man woke up, he slipped and did not injure the bone.
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