Her voice is soft, her stature is petite at only 1.64 meters, but her pretty image gets scratches. Shahraban K. B., the woman who is currently sitting in the dock in Ingolstadt during the spectacular trial of the alleged murder of a doppelganger, has already attracted attention for acts of violence in the past. This became known today, Tuesday, in the Ingolstadt regional court.
At the beginning of the second day of the trial, the presiding judge Konrad Kliegl rejected a request from K. B.’s lawyers to remove her client’s ankle bracelets in the courtroom. “According to the files, there is a considerable willingness to use violence,” Kliegl explained. He based this on past outbursts by the 24-year-old German-Iraqi woman.
In February 2018, when she was still a teenager, she was convicted of grievous bodily harm because she hit her partner’s brother in the neck with an electric stun gun. The argument in the family probably continued to escalate. In the summer of 2022, she is said to have commissioned the murder of the same man, now her brother-in-law. At least that’s what the public prosecutor’s office is charging in the current proceedings.
In July of the same year, a court ordered that she was no longer allowed to approach her husband, who was married according to Yazidi law. She tried to run him over with her car, and during another argument she suddenly threw a bar of soap at the back of his head, hit his face against a wall mirror and scratched him.
In addition, in October 2023, after more than a year in custody, there was another physical altercation between her and a fellow prisoner.
The fact that K. B. became conspicuous years ago is also one reason why the investigation into the murder case now under trial quickly led to her. The police had created a personal file on her because of the previous offenses and recorded her physical characteristics.
When a woman’s body, killed with 56 stab wounds, was found on the night of August 16, 2022 in K.B.’s Mercedes Coupé parked in the south of Ingolstadt – dark hair, brown complexion, confusingly similar to her – fingerprints and tattoos did not match these characteristics. A day later the handcuffs clicked. The Ingolstadt public prosecutor’s office places K.B. to the burden: Because of family disputes, she is said to have faked her own death and to have lured Khadidja O., 23, who looked so similar to her, to a meeting and ultimately killed her in a forest together with the 25-year-old Kosovar Sheqir K..
According to information from stern, K. is also known to the police for minor crimes. As his co-defendants’ lawyers stated on the sidelines of the trial, both of them only met through mutual friends at a party ten days before the crime.
Already during the first two of the 28 scheduled days of negotiations, the process resembles a legal chess game. A second request from K. B.’s defense lawyers was also rejected on Tuesday: They had tried to have the proceedings suspended because some files were only submitted after the indictment. The defense would not have had enough time to prepare. Judge Kliegl rejected this on the grounds that the material subsequently submitted, such as cell phone investigations, a witness statement and a psychological report, were largely of a “supplementary nature” and “did not reveal any new findings”. Nevertheless, he agreed with those involved in the trial to skip the current day of the hearing and the next date tomorrow, Wednesday, and not to continue with the trial until next Tuesday.
“That will be enough and is fair,” commented Alexander Betz, one of K. B.’s four lawyers, after the end of the session. The time gained will now be used to study the files. The defense lawyers are particularly interested in around six gigabytes of raw mobile phone data. That their client They do not deny that he made his way to Eppingen, near Heilbronn, to O.’s place of residence on the said day in the summer of 2022. But they want to find out from the chat history: Which of the two defendants had the idea of going to Heilbronn? And what were their motives? Who sent which messages?
According to her lawyers, Shahraban K. B. wants to comment on this for the first time next Tuesday. It is unclear whether her alleged accomplice Sheqir K. will also speak in court. His lawyer Klaus Wittmann told the star: “You can see how quickly things are developing here! Prepare to be surprised!”
