A 26-year-old German man, poisoned in 2016 by a colleague, died after more than three years in a coma, the Bielefeld regional court said on Friday. Employed in a factory, he had eaten a sandwich sprinkled with a mixture of lead, mercury and cadmium.
The man first complained of numbness in his fingers and said he felt intense fatigue, before he could no longer walk and then fell into a coma. Suffering from heavy and irreversible brain damage, he has since been in a vegetative state.
Author sentenced to life imprisonment
The 57-year-old poisoner was caught in the act of poisoning other colleagues' meals and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019. He appealed against this conviction.
He is said to have poisoned his colleagues' food and drink to study, "like a scientist," the effects of these chemicals on the human body, German media reported, citing prison talks with psychologists.
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