With the drug baclofen tried a older woman several times to take the life of her husband, reads the indictment.
for several months, tried a today, 65-year-old woman back in the latter half of 2018 to turn his hospitalized man to death, believes the prosecution.
The alleged attempted murder was committed with the muscle relaxant baclofen, sounds the charge.
on Tuesday, the woman at the Court of Sønderborg defend himself against the serious accusations made against her. They can cost her several years in prison if she is found guilty.
Of the indictment, it appears that the woman several times should have given the man of the baclofen, and that it is happening at all three hospitals: Sønderborg Sygehus, Odense university Hospital, and Rigshospitalet on Blegdamsvej in Copenhagen.
According to the indictment had the medicine the effect, that the man was deeply unconscious, and had “minimal brain activity”. He was in mortal danger Makrobet and survived only because he received treatment, says the.
Baclofen is according to the Danish Drug Information a substance that affects the central nervous system by inhibiting the impulses that go from the muscles to the brain. It is used, among other things, spastic conditions.
the Woman was arrested shortly before christmas and has been in custody since. She refuses guilty to the charges of attempted murder.
In the indictment has the prosecution been taken into account, what will happen, if not, the court will judge the woman for attempted murder. In that case, should she be convicted of serious violence under particularly aggravating circumstances, reads the claim.
In the penal code, violence is not just to understand violence in the usual sense. The prosecution believes that there is talk about it, which is called “legemsangreb of the special, raw, brutal or dangerous character”.
But hovedpåstanden is, thus, an indictment for attempted murder, and the prosecution goes after all to judge according to the strict punishment.
the Case is conducted as a jury trial, which means that strafkravet will sound at least four years in prison.
however, It is ultimately up to the court to mete out an appropriate punishment, if the judges and nævninger would find the woman guilty.
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