New prison sentences in trial over dead forced prostitute from Weser
A second perpetrator was sentenced to three years and five months in prison for aiding and abetting the crimes. A co-defendant woman also received a sentence of two and a half years for aiding and abetting. The new proceedings against the three defendants dealt with legal details and the weighting of the individual acts.
In October 2021, the district court had sentenced the three defendants to prison terms of between two years and nine months and eight years for forced prostitution and dangerous bodily harm by omission or aiding and abetting. The charge had originally been murder, but the court was convinced that this accusation could not be proven during the trial.
According to the court, the accused had exploited the mentally ill woman as a forced prostitute and withheld medical help from her. She finally died in spring 2020 under circumstances that could not be reconstructed in detail. The main accused threw her body, weighed down with a concrete slab, into the Weser near the municipality of Balge.
The Federal Court of Justice largely confirmed the verdict in May, but ordered the regional court in Verden to renegotiate the specific amount of the sentence. Compared to the first verdict of the regional court, the penalties were now lower. The reasons for this were the long duration of the proceedings and the positive development of two of the defendants, said the court spokeswoman.
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Source: www.stern.de
