Bochum garage murder: judges impose life imprisonment
After fatal shots were fired in an underground parking garage in Bochum, a 27-year-old man from Dortmund was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder on Friday. According to the verdict of the Bochum jury court, the man shot a 58-year-old man in his car on March 7 of this year. The crime was triggered by a road traffic dispute. Judge Nils Feldhaus called the Turkish defendant a "dangerous psychopath" in his verdict. The crime was an "ice-cold execution".
In addition to the sentence of life imprisonment, the judges also determined the particular gravity of the guilt and ordered indefinite preventive detention - for the protection of the general public.
The later victim was killed by six shots to the head. The 27-year-old had confessed to the crime during the trial, but explained that he had been insulted and had lost control. However, the judges saw things differently. A 29-year-old co-defendant from Witten was sentenced to one and a half years' probation. According to the verdict, he had helped the main defendant to escape.
The verdict is not yet final.
The judgment for the Bochum garage murder classified the defendant as a dangerous psychopath due to his actions, and the specific gravity of his guilt resulted in an order for indefinite preventive detention aside from his life imprisonment. During the trial, while admitting to the crime, the defendant claimed that he was provoked due to insults, but the judges did not find his explanation justifiable, implying that the crime processes were not solely driven by the road traffic dispute or the insults.
Source: www.dpa.com
