In the trial against a Weilroder who brutally beat his wife several times, the 28-year-old now speaks of regret: He finally wants to get rid of his drug addiction and become a better person.
In the trial against a Weilroder who brutally beat his wife several times, the 28-year-old now speaks of remorse. Photo: Fotolia
WEILROD – In the trial against a 28-year-old man who is said to have brutally beaten his wife several times, the pleadings have now been held. The charge is also of attempted homicide – whether the court sees this, however, is questionable. The prosecutor had clearly stated his opinion in his plea: “An attempted manslaughter could not be proven.” What remains is the dangerous bodily harm and the insult, for which the man should be sentenced to a prison term of eight years.
As reported, the defendant is said to have beaten his wife, who has since been divorced from him, several times in 2019 and at the beginning of this year – also in front of the children. Three acts are charged, the worst is said to have happened last January. The petite woman didn’t want to let him go back to the common house in Weilrod, so he is said to have smashed the terrace window, penetrated the rooms, strangled her and also hit her with the children’s pram. Among other things, she suffered a bruised lungs, serial fractures and a broken nose. When a friend of the woman’s doorbell rang the doorbell, he stopped banging and opened the door. The visitor saw the injured woman and the screaming children, he turned the 28-year-old out of the house. This left, but is said to have returned shortly afterwards and spat on the woman several times.
“His aim was to humiliate her, but he didn’t want to take her life,” said the prosecutor with certainty. Because he would have had the opportunity to do so, for example, he could have continued to choke the unconscious woman. In addition, the woman was not in acute mortal danger. When asked about culpability, he referred to the psychiatrist’s report. After that, the man was fully guilty despite his maximum alcohol consumption of 1.91 per mille. Because he did not show any so-called deficiency symptoms in the act: According to the testimony of witnesses, he had neither slurred nor staggered; on the other hand, he is said to have behaved purposefully and, while on the run, even thought of turning his blood-smeared sweater inside out. It was of no use to him – the police arrested him only about a kilometer from the house.
According to the prosecutor’s opinion, the 28-year-old, who has been taking drugs and drinking alcohol since his youth, will spend part of his sentence in a detention center and receive therapy there. “This is the last and only chance for the defendant to live free of punishment after imprisonment.” The man’s lawyer also pleaded for this so-called accommodation. “That is the most important thing for him. It gives him the chance to work on himself,” he said, his client next to him nodded. He also sees no attempted killing; besides, he does not believe that his client lied in court.
In doing so, the lawyer alluded to the lawyer’s plea to him. This represented the defendant’s ex-wife and had made a little mockery of the “practical form of amnesia” that the 28-year-old had shown during the trial. The man had not denied the deeds (“I guess it went like this”), but also said that he could not remember anything. Neither the defendant’s lawyer nor the ex-wife’s representative made a request for the duration of the detention.
At the end of the hearing, as usual, the defendant was allowed to say something again. He wanted to apologize and was shocked by himself, he said and added, “I want to go into therapy to become a better person.”
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