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Life imprisonment for the murder of a senior citizen in Schwäbisch Hall
At the beginning of a trial for murder, the defendant is led into a courtroom at the Heilbronn regional court by a judicial officer. photo
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About a year ago, a man is said to have broken into the apartments of two elderly women in the Schwäbisch Hall area and brutally killed them. Now he has been convicted.
In the murder trial of dead senior citizens Schwäbisch Hall, the 32-year-old defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment. The particular gravity of the guilt was also determined and subsequent preventive detention was ordered, as the judge announced on Friday in the Heilbronn regional court.
About a year ago, the man from Serbia killed two elderly women in their apartments in the Schwäbisch Hall area “using massive violence” in order to obtain assets. The crimes had moved the population at the time, said the judge.