After the judge fell ill, there were three more days of negotiation in the Leonie trial. Coordinating appointments was difficult: three professional judges also have other processes to arrange, as well as the agendas of the public prosecutor, the lawyers and the jury.
At the end of September this year, everything was quickly planned: the three Afghans charged with rape leading to death and serious sexual abuse were to be heard within just over two weeks in six days of the hearing, as well as experts and witnesses. It went according to plan, then the judge fell ill. She is back in office and has coordinated new agreements: continuation on October 24, then an appointment in November, the verdict could then fall on December 2.
Lethal dose in the blood
Leonie (13) was drugged in an apartment in Vienna in June 2021 – the toxicology expert spoke of a lethal dose – and abused several times. Dying, the three young men took the girl to a grass verge and set her down. A passer-by – working in the health sector – could not help more, as was the alarmed emergency doctor.
20 years to life imprisonment
The oldest of the suspects faces life in prison. Juvenile law applies to the other two, they were not legally of age at the time of the crime. They risk up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Source: Krone
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