The trial of a 38-year-old man who allegedly killed his 23-year-old wife in September last year begins on Tuesday. She bled to death after being stabbed 28 times, but the suspect claims that she committed suicide.
In September last year, a 23-year-old woman was found dead in a refugee accommodation in Ahrensburg. Shortly afterwards, the police arrested her 38-year-old husband as he was about to leave the country. He declared that his wife had executed herself. But the autopsy revealed that she had been killed with several knife wounds. He will go on trial from Tuesday.
The prosecution accuses him of having killed his young wife for base motives. The 23-year-old Afghan woman wanted to separate, but his “excessive possessiveness” had “not allowed her to have a life without him”, according to the prosecution.
The accused had been arrested by police officers of the Federal Police when they routinely checked a tourist bus with destination Milan on the A9 motorway at Münchberg – about 550 km from Ahrensburg – on the night of September 7 at about 1.45 a.m. The accused had been arrested by police officers of the Federal Police. During questioning, he explained to the officers that his wife had killed herself two days earlier in their shared flat in Ahrensburg. He then led her to the flat in question.
The body found there had several stab wounds. A post-mortem examination revealed that the victim had been killed with a total of 28 knife wounds. Cause of death: bleeding to death. An arrest warrant was then issued against the husband on suspicion of manslaughter and the surroundings were examined for traces.
Around 20 riot police from Eutin searched the area and the roofs of the refugee accommodation in Kornkamp. They also investigated the suspected escape route of the perpetrator for evidence and found two mobile phones and a mobile phone case behind the waiting shelter of the railway station in the slope area – presumably they belonged to the victim.
The murder trial against the 38-year-old starts on Tuesday. The court has scheduled eight main trial days and called 29 witnesses and two experts.