“Oida, you can’t. Another dead man,” Christian S. said indignantly on the first day of the trial in Vienna. The dead man was found 25 days later under his sofa bed. The jury unanimously rules that the defendant is not responsible for the man’s death…
Christian S. is relatively calm and relaxed in the dock of the Viennese court. An unusual image if you remember the 52-year-old on the first day of the trial. He was by no means taciturn, describing the events in detail and almost emotionally.
Already the second dead person in the apartment of Christian S.
“Not another one falling asleep in there,” he commented on his thoughts at the start of the trial about the 47-year-old man found dead in his apartment. And it was just 25 days later under a pull-out sofa bed in Christian S’s apartment. Before that, a man had died of an overdose at home. However, the prosecutor dropped the case due to lack of evidence. But now he has to answer for the death of the 47-year-old.
Overdosed, raped and even robbed
On September 30, 2021, they agreed to have chemsex – sexual intercourse under complete drug intoxication. The public prosecutor also notes a dangerous undertaking in the process. “I never looked for chemsex. I fell in,” said the 52-year-old. The victim did not survive this “date”. According to the indictment, Christian S. gave him an overdose of liquid ecstasy, “the rape drug par excellence”.
While the victim lay listless and unconscious on the bed, the suspect sexually assaulted him. He even captured it on video that was shown to the jury behind closed doors on the day of the verdict. The sister of the deceased then bursts into tears and the faces of the lay judges look shocked.
Not enough, Christian S. would have left the man in his apartment and taken a taxi to the victim. There he packed up the TV, went back to the unconscious man and assaulted him again. “In my career as a taxi driver, I have only transported a television twice,” the driver recalls. Moreover, the defendant would in no way give the impression that he was completely disturbed. As Christian S. states.
Significantly morbid disposition plus personality disorder
Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Peter Hofmann: “Someone who is very drunk cannot behave in such an orderly manner. While drug use certainly played a role, I assume he was always sane.” The assessor also determines that he has a significant medical personality and personality disorder.
While there is both a hereditary component to such illnesses, there are also clues to Christian S.’s past. “He comes from a really disadvantageous social background,” says Hofmann. Even as a child he had behavioral problems and had struggled through special school. Then in the 1990s his first appearance in court: he was convicted of dozens of animal cruelty against kittens and budgerigars.
At that time, the violation was not yet sufficient for a briefing. The court psychiatrist recommends the accommodation in the current trial all the more: “You can assume that the suspect travels around in a completely different world. Chances are this will happen again. Murders are to be expected,” says Hofmann, giving his expertise.
Body wrapped in ten garbage bags and two sheets
And exactly such a murder the prosecutor locates in the case of the 47-year-old victim and accuses him of rape resulting in death. Police found the dead man in Christian S.’s apartment wrapped in ten garbage bags and two sheets – after 25 days he turned himself in. The coroner described the condition of the corpse in court in graphic terms, which caused grimaces in the jury and onlookers.
And it was precisely this condition that made the autopsy of the dead extremely difficult: “It is difficult to draw conclusions about the concentration of the substances ingested or administered to the deceased.” What is certain is that liquid ecstasy and mephedrone – so-called bath salts – could be discovered. And that there was a syringe in the victim’s left arm. Which he couldn’t possibly have injected himself, his right arm was shortened, stiffened and his thumb was missing.
No objective evidence „that my client injected the drug”
However, the medical expert also states that the two drugs were not injected, but swallowed. Lawyer Anna Mair (law firm Astrid Wagner) is therefore certain: “There is no objective evidence that my client injected the victim with narcotics.” She pleads for an acquittal.
“His show ends here. That was his last performance.”
“There is no doubt that he raped the victim and is responsible for his death,” the prosecutor said in her closing statement. “Especially on the first day of the hearing, people had the impression that he wanted to put on a show with you as an audience. Christian S. did his best to play the part of his life in this courtroom. But his show ends here. That was his last performance.”
In his last words in the trial, Christian S. asks meekly and almost modestly: “I would ask you not to judge me. I’m not putting on a show here. I am a good person. If you think I’m innocent, I swear I won’t engage in drug sex.”
Not all charges were acquitted, but the main ones were. The jury unanimously agrees that the man had no intention to kill, did not give him the drugs. He has been sentenced to an illegal seven-year prison sentence for sexual assault of defenseless people and theft – he stole gold and jewelery from a second victim on a sex date. You will also be admitted to a forensic therapeutic centre.
Source: Krone
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