In the trial surrounding the death of student Hanna W. from Aschau im Chiemgau, the public prosecutor’s office demanded nine and a half years’ imprisonment for the defendant under juvenile criminal law. The trial fully confirmed the prosecution’s allegation that the 22-year-old man “is without a doubt the perpetrator of this homicide,” said public prosecutor Wolfgang Fiedler on Friday in front of the Traunstein regional court.
The defendant is said to have attacked the young woman in the early morning of October 3, 2022, seriously injured her and then thrown her into the Bärbach. She drowned there. The theory that the 23-year-old medical student fell into the stream without anyone else’s intervention has been refuted, said Fiedler. An accident is ruled out. During the 33 days of the main hearing, “every stone was turned over in the truest sense of the word”. There is no evidence or circumstantial evidence that exonerates the defendant.
The defendant attacked Hanna with sexual motives in the early morning of October 3, 2022 on her way home from the “Eiskeller” club in Aschau im Chiemgau and hit her on the head several times. At first it was about bodily harm, but then, when he realized what he had done, he threw the young woman into the Bärbach to cover up the previous crime.
This constitutes a cover-up murder. The young woman had celebrated at the club that night and headed home early in the morning – she never got there. Hours later she was discovered dead in the Prien River, into which the Bärbach flows.
Lawyer for the co-plaintiff with an emotional plea
The lawyer for the co-plaintiff agreed with the public prosecutor’s request. In an emotional presentation, the lawyer for student Hanna W.’s parents also called for the defendant to be sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for murder. It’s about the death of a “lovable young girl,” said Walter Holderle, a “well-liked young person” who “had her whole life ahead of her.”
For the parents who followed the trial as co-plaintiffs, the question was asked “a thousand times over: Why?” The parents’ question as to why their daughter was killed remained “regrettably unanswered” in the trial, said Holderle. The question of who killed her, however, was answered very clearly. The theory that the 23-year-old medical student fell into the stream without anyone else’s intervention has been refuted. The now 22-year-old defendant remained silent during the trial.
Amok hints shortly before pleas
There were particularly strict police checks before the trial because of evidence of a shooting spree. “We have everything under control, we have done everything,” said presiding judge Jacqueline Aßbichler before the start of the hearing in the packed courtroom. Anyone who wants to leave the room for this reason can do so. As a precaution, the curtains in the courtroom were drawn to prevent any view from outside.