The seventy -one -year -old US soldier was sentenced to life sentence on Tuesday in Germany for a fatal stabbing of a young woman 47 years agoinforms TASR based on DPA report.
The man was 24 years old at that time and always lasted on his innocence. His advocates asked for a deprivation of accusations in Schweinfurt in Schweinfurt in the southwest of Germany. One of his two lawyers asked to be subjected to a psychiatric examination in the event of a conviction. According to him, he suffered a post -traumatic stress disorder at the time of the act, which significantly affected its ability to control behavior. However, this was not a guilt, he stressed. The court dismissed the application.
The indictment demanded a life sentence for a former soldier based on the finding of his DNA on the garment of an 18-year-old victim. In the final speeches, the prosecutor mentioned two witnesses who claimed that the man confessed to the murder.
At the time of the incident, the soldier served in Schweinfurt. Investigators assume that a married man had a relationship with a young woman and April 20, 1978 her He was supposed to stab 14 times. Prosecutors say that The motive of the murder was the threat that the victim would reveal their ratio and possible pregnancy to his wife. Given the limitation period, it was only possible to prosecute a man for murder. The verdict is not yet final.
