Nine months after the violent death of a 16-year-old girl in Großröhrsdorf (Saxony), the regional court in Bautzen has convicted a young person of manslaughter.
In the course of an agreement, the youth chamber imposed a prison sentence of seven and a half years on the sixteen-year-old.
He had confessed to killing the girl with multiple stab wounds.
Why, however, remained open, as the parents' lawyer said after the non-public trial.
The murder weapon has not yet been found.
The verdict is not yet legally binding.
16-year-old Wiktoria was found seriously injured on September 15, 2021 in a garage complex in the small town east of Dresden.
Paramedics and emergency doctors had resuscitated her, but she died in hospital – according to the autopsy result of stab wounds.
A good week later, the then fifteen-year-old was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
The German and the girl, who lived in a nearby village and had moved to Saxony with her family from Poland, knew each other from high school.
He and the girl met to talk, "there was an argument that escalated," said his defense attorney.
Essentially, it was about relationship issues, he did not give any more details.
“Judgment cannot remove the pain.
But it helps to work through,” said the lawyer for the parents of the dead.