Days before the crime, an 18-year-old from Salzburg is said to have written in his diary about his intention to kill. He would have tried this at his father’s court. He now said in court that he had not planned the crime – the jury did not believe him.
“Dad, I have to do this now. I have to kill you!”, the 18-year-old is said to have yelled at his father. Immediately afterwards, he allegedly attacked the man with a 90-centimeter long piece of wood, beat him with his fists and choked him with a belt. In the regional court of St. Pölten he was now in the dock for attempted murder.
Already at the beginning of the trial, the public prosecutor paints a picture of the broken father-son relationship: he left the family when the boy was only two years old. There was no contact until age ten and then only loosely. “There has never been a relationship of trust,” says the public prosecutor. While the 18-year-old lived in Salzburg with his mother and two brothers, his father owned a farm in the Waldviertel. His son often visited him there.
“I don’t know why I want to kill him”
But the visit in March this year was different: the 18-year-old would have had plans in advance to kill his father and take over the farm. He wrote in a journal, “I don’t know why I want to kill my biological father.”
In court, the young man from Salzburg described the crime very differently: his drug use led to a dispute. The father was angry and disappointed. The situation escalated and the 18-year-old hit him on the head with a piece of wood. The scramble after that would also have been punches. “I didn’t plan this!”
The jury didn’t believe him. The verdict is 11 years in prison – not final!
Source: Krone
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