It is an eagerly awaited verdict: This Friday at 10 a.m., the Munich I Regional Court is to decide whether the accused Manfred Genditzki was innocently imprisoned for 13 years for murder. In the newly rolled out trial of the so-called “bathtub murder”, even the public prosecutor’s office is now demanding acquittal because there are great doubts as to whether the death of an old woman in a bathtub in Rottach-Egern in Upper Bavaria was a crime at all and not simply a tragic accident.
The now 63-year-old, who worked as a caretaker in the residential complex of the dead, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Munich II Regional Court in 2010. According to the conviction of the assize court, he had hit the elderly woman on the head in October 2008 after a dispute in her apartment and then drowned in the bathtub.
Genditzki has always denied the allegations. After years of fighting for a retrial, a new trial started in April. In the process, experts had now been heard who exonerated the man who had been imprisoned for years.