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Businesswoman murdered – perpetrators for life behind bars
The accused is standing in a courtroom in the Bückeburg Regional Court before the start of the court hearing. photo
© Michael Matthey/dpa
A then 45-year-old man is said to have insidiously abused and murdered a stationer in her shop. The regional court in Bückeburg is now sending him behind bars for life.
A 46-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the insidious murder of a businesswoman in the small town of Obernkirchen near the border with North Rhine-Westphalia in Lower Saxony.
The regional court in Bückeburg did not determine the particular severity of the guilt requested by the public prosecutor, but otherwise followed the request of the authority. The defense had asked for a prison sentence of six years for aggravated robbery and arson. The 75-year-old was discovered dead in her stationery shop in the small town of Obernkirchen at the end of June 2022. The corpse was naked, the clothes were missing.
The verdict was issued for insidious murder to satisfy the sex drive in conjunction with severe predatory extortion, and also for serious arson, as the presiding judge Antonius Hüntemann explained. According to the chamber, the then 45-year-old German had forced the elderly woman to give him money from the till. According to the judge, the night after the crime, the convict set a fire at home in order to kill himself.