A housewarming party ended in Carinthia with magic mushrooms and a dead man. The trial ended with a whopping guilty verdict for the 23-year-old suspect.
Blue jacket, white sneakers, slumped shoulders: The 23-year-old, who is brought before the Klagenfurt jury court, looks more like an older confirmation than a murder suspect. Until nine months ago, Leonardo was a successful insurance broker who had just built his house. Now he is the man who took his best friend’s life.
housewarming escalated
How, he tearfully tells jury and judge Christian Liebhauser: “The three of us celebrated my housewarming – with mushrooms to have fun. Suddenly everything escalated.” His best friend is said to have started a heated argument. Both were trained kickboxers and the fists flew quickly. “To calm him, I put the neck clamp on. This police grip is iron – and can be deadly.
Sex with teenage love
“I had already let him go when he started to insult my family very badly. And claimed that he had sex with my childhood sweetheart behind my back. Then I saw red.” And squeezed Just a few seconds And they were enough to kill the now defenseless 22-year-old “I don’t want to be a murderer,” Leonardo sobs.
But when he sits before the jury: murder, 15 years in prison – Leonardo, defended by Manfred Arbacher-Stöger, accepts the verdict.
Source: Krone
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