Attempted murder: long jail time for stabber
The woman said in court that she did not want to fight or contradict the man who committed the crime on October 30, 2021. The jury returned a unanimous yes to the question of attempted murder. Neither the defense attorney nor the prosecutor made any statement. Therefore the judgment is not final.
According to the public prosecutor, there was a verbal argument in the run-up to the crime. Then the accused got a knife with a blade length of 20 centimeters from the kitchen and inflicted two stab wounds on her secret partner. The first stab opened the victim’s left chest cavity. “The injury was life-threatening,” the prosecutor said. At the time of the crime, the alcohol-dependent woman had a blood alcohol level of 1.56 per thousand. According to a court report, she was sane.
Fast 1.6 per thousand
The native of Upper Austria described on Tuesday, sometimes with tears in her eyes, that she was still mourning the death of her fiancé, who died in the summer of 2020, and that she drank alcohol to make her feel indifferent. On October 30, she drank vodka with orange juice, even though her new boyfriend, whom she met online, wanted to help her get off the alcohol. “He was a very nice man.”
The prosecution sparked a dispute about alcohol, the woman wanted to move out. But her boyfriend stopped her. Then she took the knife in her hand to scare him: “I wanted the argument to stop. My head was just empty.” He wanted to take the knife away from her, the scramble resulted in the stab wounds.
Victim sees the act completely different
But she made no forward motion with the knife toward her boyfriend, she replied to the associate judge, who confronted her that the thrust must have been severe, as the blade pierced through three layers of the victim’s clothing and then into the victim’s rib cage several inches had penetrated.
However, her friend had testified that the two stab wounds had happened in quick succession. The woman stabbed the upper body with full force, pulled the knife out again and then stabbed the upper left arm.
In his opening statement, the defense attorney said that the 37-year-old pleaded not guilty to the charge of attempted murder. She deeply regrets her actions. At that time they did not think about the fact that a serious injury could occur, from which the man could die.
Additional allegation of defamation
The prosecutor extended the charge of defamation during the hearing. The accused allegedly alleged that her partner had been raped in prison in a letter to the detention and legal protection judge and during the police interrogation. Tuesday said the woman that this allegation is not true. They were pressured by a cellmate to make these allegations.
The defense attorney recognized EUR 1,641.44 of a total of EUR 3,641.44 that the representative of the private parties demanded for the physical and mental pain suffered and for the deductible for the one-week hospital stay of the victim.