The jury returned a unanimous yes to the question of attempted murder. Neither the defense attorney nor the prosecutor issued a statement. Therefore the judgment is not final.
According to the prosecutor, there was initially a verbal argument. Then the accused got a knife with a blade length of 20 centimeters from the kitchen and inflicted two stab wounds on her then partner. The first stab opened the victim’s left chest cavity. “The injury was life-threatening,” the prosecutor said. At the time of the crime, the alcohol-dependent woman had a blood alcohol level of 1.56 per mille. According to a court report, she was sane.
The native of Upper Austria described today, sometimes with tears in her eyes, that she was still mourning the death of her fiancé, who died in the summer of 2020, and that she drank alcohol to make her feel indifferent. On October 30, she drank vodka with orange juice, even though her new boyfriend, whom she met online, wanted to help her get off the alcohol. “He was a very nice man.”
According to the indictment, a dispute about alcohol sparked the woman who wanted to move out. But her boyfriend stopped her, the woman said. Then she took the knife in her hand to scare him. “I wanted the argument to stop. My head was just blank.” He wanted to take the knife away from her, the scramble resulted in the stab wounds.
But she made no forward movement with the knife toward her boyfriend, she replied to the associate judge, who confronted her with the fact that the thrust must have been violent, as the blade first pierced three layers of the victim’s clothing and then several into the chest centimeters had penetrated.
However, her friend had testified that the two stab wounds had happened in quick succession. The woman stabbed the upper body with full force, pulled the knife out again and then stabbed the upper left arm.
In his opening statement, the defense attorney said that the 37-year-old pleaded not guilty to the charge of attempted murder. She deeply regrets her actions. At the time, she did not think that a serious injury could occur from which the man could die.