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Aachen (dpa / lnw) - A man killed his wife with many knife wounds last summer in Geilenkirchen near Aachen.

On Tuesday, the Aachen Regional Court sentenced the 56-year-old defendant to life imprisonment for murder.

The woman had filmed the knife attack on her cell phone.

She died on the balcony where she had fled from the apartment.

The son was at school that August morning last year.

The couple from Afghanistan had married in an arranged marriage.

The man was initially charged with manslaughter.

But the court concluded that the wife was innocent and that the 19 knife stab attack was insidious.

The woman was alone with the man and had no chance of defending herself.

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