In the retrial for the death of an 87-year-old in a bathtub in Rottach-Egern, the defendant’s wife described her husband as very accurate and conscientious. He is a workaholic, a family man and a loving husband and father, said the 39-year-old on Monday before the Munich I district court.
“From time to time I call him Herr Schmidt” – because he is “very German”. In 2010, the Munich II Regional Court sentenced the accused Manfred Genditzki, who had maintained his innocence for more than a decade, to life imprisonment. According to the conviction of the jury, the caretaker at the time in the residential complex had hit the elderly woman on the head in her apartment after an argument and then drowned her in the bathtub.
The verdict became final after two revisions and has now been reopened at the instigation of the 62-year-old’s defense attorneys because new reports have raised doubts about the man’s guilt.
The relationship between Genditzki and his family and the old woman was good, the wife described in court. She gave the little son pocket money – once 250 euros for a vacation – and chocolate and jewelry herself. “Child, I have something for you,” the old woman said to her.
In addition, the 39-year-old spoke of notes that the 87-year-old had written several times and which said that Genditzki should inherit everything once she dies.
The accused’s 36-year-old daughter from a previous relationship also testified in court on Monday. “My dad can’t hurt a fly,” she emphasized. She called the allegations against him “beyond good and evil”. Her father was “not able to do that”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/.”He wouldn’t have done that to us as a family either.”