16-year-old man: a charge of life imprisonment | NDR.de – News – Lower Saxony

As of: 28.11.2018 15:11

At the trial of a 24-year-old district court in Hanover, the prosecutor's office on Wednesday demanded a death sentence for murder. She considers that it is proven that the man violently killed Anna-Lena, 16, from Barsinghausen. Aged 24, he denies the act, the defense pleaded in favor of acquittal. She did not consider the authors of the accused to be proven, said a spokeswoman for the Hanover District Court at the end of the trial.

Involuntary manslaughter is also considered

The 16-year-old was found in mid-June, covered in blood before a primary school. According to the autopsy, the teenager had died striking his neck and mbadive blows with a 1.30 meter long limb. The 24-year-old had only been released a few months before the crime. The victim and he would have met shortly before the attack. According to the court, a conviction for manslaughter is also possible. The verdict must be announced next Wednesday.

The defendant is also responsible for the continuation of the killings?

Meanwhile, the prosecution continues to investigate, according to its own information, on whether the accused is responsible for another homicide offense. Just two months before the violent death of Anna-Lena and only a few blocks from the crime scene, a 55-year-old woman was killed by mbadive violence.