A man convicted of murder may have used his release from Stein Prison in September 2021 to rob a grocery discounter in Stadl-Paura (Wels-Land district) with an accomplice. The 51-year-old accused is said to have briefed the 22-year-old and waited in the getaway car.
Since July, the now accused prisoner was in the release process. In 2006 he beat an innkeeper from Lambach to death with a chair leg and was jailed for 20 years. As a free agent, he was obviously planning the next crime. According to the indictment, he is said to have bought a gas pistol and explained to the now 23-year-old “what he has to do”.
On September 30, just before the store closed at 7:25 p.m., the man entered the supermarket and, at gunpoint, demanded that a clerk put bills from the till into a bag. Then he went with the 17-year-old to the vault in the warehouse where the branch manager was. She opened it and gave the robber bills and rolls of coins, who then ran to the getaway car. The duo managed to escape, but a few days later – on the first weekend in October – they were caught and part of the loot was confiscated. The release order for the killer was revoked, and his accomplice is also in custody. Both face up to fifteen years in prison.
Source: Nachrichten
