The public prosecutor assumes that the main defendant, who is now 22 years old, shot his friend and his parents in January 2020. However, his defense attorney wants fewer years of imprisonment than the prosecution calls for. The verdict is expected in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, the verdict in the trial of a triple murder in Starnberg. In his closing remarks, the lawyer for the main defendant pleads for his client to receive twelve years of youth imprisonment. Since no repetition of such an act is to be expected, the court should also refrain from the preventive detention requested by the public prosecutor, said defense attorney Gerhard Bink before the Munich II Regional Court. Although B. was silent for a long time in the process, the defense attorney demanded the first spontaneous confession and to recognize a later confession to the police as an early confession and thus as a mitigating sentence.
The accused apologized to the bereaved. “I join my lawyers in wanting to apologize to all of the family, even though I know my actions are unpardonable,” he said. The verdict is to be announced at 2 p.m. in the afternoon.
The public prosecutor assumes that the German main defendant, who is now 22 years old, shot his friend and his parents in January 2020. He is charged with three counts of murder. His 21-year-old Slovakian friend is said to have planned the murder of their friend and drove the main perpetrator to the scene. He’s on trial for murder. The public prosecutor’s office has demanded high juvenile sentences for murder for the two accused, who were still considered adolescents at the time of the crime. In her plea, she spoke out in favor of 13 years and six months in prison and the reservation of preventive detention.
The defense of the co-accused has asked for an acquittal for their client. He “neither planned the crime nor made any preparations for it,” it said in his defense attorney’s pleading last week on the murder charge. “A complicity is therefore excluded, even if the public prosecutor wishes it so much.”
The act made headlines at the time because the investigators were initially on the wrong track and assumed that the young man had shot his parents and then himself. But in the end, the police and prosecutors had to realize that everything was probably very different. The lawyer for the main defendant went to court with the investigators on Monday. “Incredible mistakes” were made at the crime scene. Without them “the family would have been saved a lot”.