Frankfurt/Main (dpa/lhe) – A man has been sentenced to seven years and nine months in prison by the Frankfurt Regional Court in a recent trial for pushing a wheelchair user onto the tracks of the Frankfurt subway. The jury assumed attempted manslaughter on Wednesday, but imposed no further preventive detention on the 71-year-old. This was disproportionate against the background that the accused had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his fiancé, according to the decision. The verdict is not yet legally binding.
The accused, who had a massive criminal record, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001, which was suspended in 2019. At the beginning of January 2020, the incident involving the 32-year-old wheelchair user finally occurred in the Dornbusch district. An incoming subway was able to brake in time, so that the victim was only slightly injured. In November, the man was therefore sentenced to eight years in prison for attempted manslaughter and subsequent preventive detention – at the same time the suspension of probation was revoked, so that the life sentence is still to be served. The Federal Court of Justice confirmed the court’s findings on the course of the crime, but not the amount of the sentence and the preventive detention. Therefore, another trial against the 71-year-old was necessary.
