A 34-year-old has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his ex-partner and his small daughter in Hamburg's Jungfernstieg S-Bahn station. The Hamburg district court also noted the particular severity of the debt. Thus, a premature release after 15 years as good as impossible.
The accused from West African Niger had been in court to have killed his ex-partner - a mother of five - and the common little daughter on 12 April 2018 before the eyes of numerous passers-by with a knife. The prosecution had shown in the process convinced that the background of the bloody act was a custody dispute with the originally from Neustrelitz woman
The prosecution had demanded as well as the co-plaintiffs a life imprisonment for the accused. It should also note the particular severity of the debt. The 35-year-old committed the double murder for low motives and insidious to punish the mother of his child.
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The defender of Mourtala M. had demanded a conviction for manslaughter. His client was only partially guilty and spontaneously decided to act. The defendant had acted out of sadness for the loss of the daughter and out of anger. M. himself had said in court, "I have regretted my act and I ask for forgiveness, it is a sin."