In the trial of a triple murder in Starnberg, the Munich II Regional Court sentenced the main defendant to 13 years in prison. A co-defendant was sentenced to eight years and six months for murder in one case.
After around a year and a half of proceedings, the court considered it proven that the main defendant had shot his friend and his parents in January 2020. The man made a full confession a year ago. He also admitted that he wanted to get through the murders to get the guns his pal illegally owned to sell. According to the public prosecutor’s office, his roommate helped plan the murder of their common friend and drove the main perpetrator to the scene of the crime.
Prosecutors wanted 13.5 years for co-defendants as well
The prosecution had demanded high juvenile sentences for murder for both defendants. In her plea, she spoke out in favor of 13 years and six months in prison and the reservation of preventive detention.
The request was unusual. Because the public prosecutor’s office had demanded the same punishment for the 21-year-old Slovakian, who was not at the scene of the crime, as for the 22-year-old German, who had admitted the crime. The co-defendant is said to have only driven the perpetrator to the crime scene and picked him up. In addition, a maximum sentence of ten years also applies to murder in juvenile criminal law. If adolescents between the ages of 18 and 21 are convicted under juvenile criminal law, up to 15 years is only possible in rare cases in the case of murder with a particularly serious degree of guilt.
Nevertheless, the lawyer for the main defendant in his pleading remained only slightly below the demand of the prosecution. He spoke out in favor of twelve years in prison for his client.
“Wanted to apologize to all family members”
The accused himself was repentant. “I join my lawyers in wanting to apologize to all of the family, even though I know my actions are unpardonable,” he said in his last word. The co-defendant’s defense had asked for acquittal of the murder charge and admitted only involvement in the planning of an armed robbery.
The fact also made headlines because the investigators initially assumed that the son had shot his parents and then himself.
