An art dealer wants to be acquitted

What in the early Morning of the 30th. December 2014 took place in a Villa in Küsnacht, referred to the defenders of the accused as a "monstrous level of violence," as a bloody act in which "the madness directed".

The term "madness" fits. The dispute between the drug-dazed friends, the then-29-year-old art dealer and his long-time friend, the 23-year-old Alex, to be broken out and escalated, because the 29-Year-old danced to a lot of Swedish folk music, and then suggested to renounce in the future on the consumption of the party drug abused anesthesia and pain medication ketamine.

"Like an Alien with green ears and red eyes"

In a "psychotic noise history" he'll have his friend suddenly, "like an Alien" with long green ears and red eyes and perceived that wanted to kill him. And so he killed him. The portrayal of the gruesome Details should be omitted at this point.

The court Meilen district court sentenced the man in June 2017 due to intentional homicide, and because he had raped his Ex-girlfriend in London is hard and sexually assaulted, to imprisonment for a term of twelve and a half years. Thus, neither the defender of the accused nor the Prosecutor were to agree, which is why the Supreme court had to deal with the case on Monday in to the last seat filled the courtroom.

credibility of the Ex-girlfriend questioned

defender Thomas Sprenger is not justified, which is why it gave the defendants sexual offences in London. There is no objective evidence, but a "Plethora of inaccuracies". The woman, Exaggerations and Dramatizations tilt, 've accused two of your Partner of a sexual offence.

defender Thomas Fingerhuth requested acquittal from the charges of premeditated murder. Although best no one denied that the art dealer killed his buddy. He had been "totally incompetent". In fact, the psychiatric expert had explained to the accused against the Background of the "Alien"story for debt unable to pay. However, the district court in miles did not believe this story.

The district court, so Fingerhuth, should not be allowed to question the statements of the accused to the psychiatrist at all. And because his client could not avoid the guilt, inability, and did not foresee, could also be accused of the fault of the operator requested. Prosecutor Alexander Knauss called for an increase in the penalty to 16 years. The district court, the penalty got reduced miles due to the heavy reduction in debt capacity is much too high, and for the sexual offences of a too mild penalty is chosen. Knauss asked the question in the room, whether the accused, even in a diminished responsibility may be given the benefit.

"Alex was like a brother"

Before the high court on the 27. November will announce a decision, said the Accused, want to say had to the thing itself, nothing, in a final word. It'll do him infinite suffering, he hated himself and was ashamed of what he had done. Alex had been a friend of many years, he had loved and cared for like a brother.

He was not at that time been master of his senses. His thoughts are with Alex's family, for which he pray, and which he desires power. He hoped that she could forgive him, maybe sometime in the future.

Created: 18.11.2019, 20:04 PM