The retrial of the violent death of a young woman from Freyung in Lower Bavaria was continued on Tuesday before the Deggendorf district court with an important testimony. The 28-year-old ex-boyfriend of the victim is accused. He is accused of murder. He was convicted of manslaughter in November 2017 by the Passau Regional Court. Among other things, the testimony of the witness in the first trial got the ball rolling for the retrial of the trial.
At the time of the crime in October 2016, the witness was the girlfriend of the defendant’s best friend at the time. In court, she said that her boyfriend had written to her by cell phone at the time that his friend – the accused – had said that he had stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in her sleep, then raped her and bled her dry. The witness said she hid it in the first trial. “Because I was afraid and because I had somehow suppressed it.” In addition, her boyfriend at the time said later that that wasn’t true at all.
The two were convicted in 2019 before the district court of Passau for false testimony after correcting their statements from the first trial. The case is about whether the defendant stabbed his ex-girlfriend while she was sleeping. Killing in his sleep would signify the murder trait of insidiousness. This could not be clarified in the first trial. The Deggendorf district court came to the conclusion that it cannot be ruled out that the Passau judges would have passed a murder verdict in 2017 without the false statements of the two witnesses. It allowed the case to be reopened.