A 17-year-old was acquitted of a double attempt at murder by a jury in Salzburg on Monday. The young woman, who beat her ex-boyfriend with a hammer and was accused of stabbing her because she could not come to terms with the end of the relationship, was sentenced to seven months in prison for bodily harm and a dangerous threat.
The judgment is not final. The defendant accepted the verdict and the prosecutor made no statement. The jury unanimously approved the attempted murder. The young woman had denied an intention to kill. In the two incidents in September and October 2019, she only feared her ex-boyfriend and wanted to force him to talk to him so that he could have a relationship with her again, she said.
The Salzburg native had a intimate relationship lasting one and a half years with the then 30-year-old father of a child until summer 2019. Then the man ended the relationship to be with his child’s mother again. “The accused could not accept it,” said prosecutor Sandra Lemmermayer.
The 17-year-old therefore had the plan to stab the man with a knife, the prosecutor explained. This plan had failed twice: on September 23, after the suspect hit a hammer on the back of his head and inflicted a bleeding wound on him – he was able to take the hammer away from her, and on October 21, when she lay in wait in the bushes in front of his house and held a knife in his hand. When the man fell and called for help, the teenager ran away.
In both cases, the defendant had no murder intent, said defense attorney Leopold Hirsch. He pleaded for bodily harm and coercion or a dangerous threat.
Those: APA
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