When Karin G. came home on March 7, her lifeless daughter Keira, gagged with a scarf and covered with blood, lay in front of the sofa. Immediately, the mother alerted the fire department, began even with the resuscitation, which continued the emergency doctor. For 90 minutes, the doctors fought for the life of the 14-year-old student, who eventually died: someone had injured Keira with 23 stitches, three of them were deadly.

The murder commission quickly identified the alleged perpetrator, a 15-year-old who went to the same school in East Berlin as Keira G. She attended the 8th, he 9th grade. They had arranged to meet Keira to do homework together. Keira was pleased, she had fallen in love with the boy, had a photo of him hanging on the wall. Her visitor had brought a kitchen knife and rubber gloves.

Since the end of September, the 13th Criminal Division of the Berlin district court against him - under the chairmanship of Regina Alex negotiated. Now she has announced her sentence: nine years imprisonment. This leaves them for a year under the maximum penalty - because the defendant has been unpunished so far and at least had made a partial confession.

"He wanted to see if he would be able to commit a killing."

The trial of Keira's violent death took place without publicity. Even if the accused, who is to be called Hannes E. here, is easy to find on the Internet for everyone: his true name could not be read on the notice board next to the courtroom, not to be named.

Hannes E. had also said that he killed Keira G. because she asked him to. The judges interpreted this as a protective claim, since no witness could confirm that the girl had longed for death.

Rather, the suspicion hardened that Hannes E. acted "out of pure lust for murder", as it says in the judgment. "He wanted to see if he would be able to commit a killing," said court spokeswoman Lisa Jani after the verdict. "It was all about killing a human being," she quotes from the verdict. The adolescent had long dealt with the killing of a human. He told his classmates he was a member of a joker clan.

"As if he did not realize what he did"

Joker, explains Roland Weber, lawyer of Keira's mother, is Batman's adversary: ​​a psychopath who kills for the sake of killing. The teenager wore Joker playing cards around his neck and dyed his hair green like his idol. Hannes E. also revealed to his classmates that he was stabbing someone in the neck, that he wanted to try human flesh and set fire to buildings. At some point, they would not have taken him seriously anymore. "He was looking for the nervous stimulant," quoted lawyer Weber the words of the presiding judge to the motive.

Karin G. looks tense and relieved at the same time. She has prepared for this day, has put on her daughter's black jeans, has tied her old pink plaid woolen cloth. She wears ribbons around her left arm and around her neck. These consist of black, brown and white hair - the hair of her daughter and the pony that belonged to Keira.

That's how she confronted Keira's killers. He had acted completely indifferent during the verdict: "As if he has not noticed, what he has done." The culprit and his fate do not care about Keira's mother. It was important for her, "that the board justified the verdict as I estimated it."

She did not have to think about whether her daughter wanted to leave her life voluntarily. But Karin G. also says: "There can not be any satisfaction, no one and nothing can bring back my daughter."

Together she mourns with Keira's grandparents and friends. The sympathy of friends and acquaintances, but also of strangers, help her: "This is amazing, what empathy is given to a there!"