A woman from the Mühlviertel is seriously disabled after a fall down the basement stairs. Her own son would have pushed her. However, he denies this at the trial for serious bodily harm with lasting consequences in Linz. A verdict was passed on Thursday evening – not final.
In room 138 of the regional court in Linz, a family drama in a middle-class family is spread. The mother (56) is 100 percent incapacitated for work after a serious head injury. Can’t talk, is in a wheelchair. Care level 7, 24-hour care. The son (27) is said to have pushed her over the cellar stairs in August 2021 in the parental home in the Mühlviertel. The innocent man denies that.
In a description of the facts, including a drawing, he records how he says he found the mother already unconscious on the basement stairs. “There she is. It wasn’t me,” he explains without apparent empathy. If he had pushed the mother, she would have sustained more serious injuries, he claims.
A friend of the family witnessed the argument
The suspect is accused by a young friend (22) of the family. She witnessed the quarrel between mother and son. It was a medicine for acne. The son hit his victim. When the argument moved to the basement stairs, she fled in panic to the neighbors and got help. She knew nothing about family problems.
alcohol and drug problems
That not everything was pure luck only becomes clear when the father testifies. Yes, he knew about his son’s alcohol and drug problems. The fact that the son worked as a lease employee despite a bachelor’s degree also played a role. And the father says the junior threatened and slapped him in May. “How are you?”, he asked the suspect after the testimony. This only answers with a hum. He previously said of his father, a judge in Upper Austria, “He wants to see me in prison.”
judgment made
On Thursday evening, the judge issued a verdict that is not yet final: two years in prison and placement in an institution for mentally deviant offenders. In addition, 137,100 euros will be taken over for the mother’s care and other expenses, as well as the obligation to assume all other costs of the mother.
Source: Krone
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