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In the trial surrounding the violent death of a 23-year-old from North Rhine-Westphalia, the Oldenburg regional court sentenced the woman's former partner to a ten-year prison sentence.
The presiding judge said it was a case of intentional manslaughter, committed in a state of diminished responsibility.
In his verdict, he described the act as monstrous.
“The punishment is really difficult to bear.”
The public prosecutor's office had originally accused the 30-year-old of murder.
According to the report, the man stabbed the young woman from the Gütersloh district 98 times.
The crime took place on June 25, 2023 in his apartment in Vechta, Lower Saxony.
At the start of the trial, the German confessed to having killed his former partner.
The woman came from Rheda-Wiedenbrück.
With the verdict, the chamber followed the plea of the public prosecutor, who had demanded a ten-year prison sentence for manslaughter in a state of diminished responsibility.
The co-prosecution, however, demanded a life sentence for murder.
The defense did not mention a specific sentence in its plea and spoke of a less serious case.
"Life imprisonment or ten years seems excessive to me," said the defendant's lawyer.
Editor's note: In an earlier version, the headline said the man murdered his ex-partner. In fact, he was convicted of manslaughter. We have corrected the spot.
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