A few days before the act, the nurse had finally ended her 15-year relationship with the 43-year-old. The man armed with a pistol then appeared in her apartment on April 29 and is said to have shot the woman. At the time of the crime, her 13-year-old daughter and a neighbor were in the apartment in addition to the woman. In the presence of the two, he is said to have shot the 35-year-old first in the thigh and then in the head.
According to his defense lawyer Manfred Arbacher-Stöger, the accused can no longer remember the act due to his alcoholism. At the trial, he would plead guilty, but he had committed the act “in a state of intoxication” and was therefore not guilty of guilt. “He is terribly sorry for the bloody act,” said the lawyer. The trial will continue on Wednesday, when a judgment should be given. The defendant had achieved some inglorious notoriety before the incriminated act by initiating a legal dispute with the Green Club chairwoman Sigrid Maurer.
Source: Nachrichten
