She kills a man who assaulted her and gets his pension for years in Germany

A woman today admitted to the Magdeburg City Court the murder of a pensioner and his pension for many years.

The 62-year-old defendant said she had killed the man in self-defense after trying to sexually assault her.

The accused said she had attacked and killed the man, whose neighbor had been caring for years, with a knife and an ax, adding that the incident occurred 24 years ago.

German prosecutors charge women with beatings leading to death. The decisive point in the judicial assessment of the case is the determination of the time of the crime. .

After the man's death, the defendant received the man's pension for years. The lawsuit estimates that women earned at least 105,000 euros from March 2004 to September 2015.

The women had made widespread confessions before the trial began.