After the cruel killing of a woman from Mülheim an der Ruhr, the trial against the son of the victim started in Duisburg on Tuesday. The 36-year-old allegedly stabbed his mother 18 times in the head and back with a kitchen knife on December 1, 2021. Afterwards, the 68-year-old’s head was cut off. The 36-year-old cannot be sentenced.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, he is considered incapable of culpability due to a severe mental illness. For the protection of the general public, however, he is facing indefinite placement in a closed psychiatric ward. At the start of the trial, the 36-year-old has not yet commented on the charges.
At the time of the crime, mother and son were living in a shared flat in Mülheim. The public prosecutor’s office assumes that on the day of the crime there was an argument, in the course of which the Bosnian-Herzegovinian defendant grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed repeatedly. He allegedly smashed the head, which was later severed, with the lower part of a table.
At the time of the crime, the 36-year-old, who is also said to suffer from hallucinations, is said to have been in an acute phase of illness. The judges at the Duisburg Regional Court have scheduled three more days of hearings until August 16.