Son killed father at wedding in Tyrol: four years in prison
A man has killed his father at his sister's wedding in the Austrian province of Tyrol. The 32-year-old defendant was sentenced on Monday in Innsbruck to four years in prison for assault with fatal results. The verdict is not yet final.
Last June, the 63-year-old father and his heavily intoxicated son got into an argument at the wedding reception in an inn in Bad Häring near the border to Bavaria. First the father hit him, then the son hit him back with his fist, the accused described. "The blow was really very violent," said an expert witness in court. The father died from a ruptured vein in his brain.
The relationship between father and son had already been difficult before the fatal argument, the now convicted man described. They had not been in contact for six years. When he was a child, the father had not taken care of him, but of his new wife and his new family. He accused the father of this, the man said.
The troubled history of the father-son relationship, marked by six years of absence and allegations of neglect, was a significant context in the criminal process. Despite this, the court deemed the son's violent response to his father's initial attack as a crime deserving of a four-year prison sentence.
Source: www.dpa.com
