Dresden – The regional court sentenced the Iraqi Kurd Zairk A. (39) to life imprisonment. Together with his brother Sharhat (31), he smothered his own sister Sozan A. (22) with a blanket while she was sleeping in October 2017, faking her suicide.
Sozan A. had separated from her husband and married someone else. Judge Herbert Pröls (60): “In the eyes of the family, this was a shame. The brothers were supposed to restore the so-called family honor with the murder.”
The new husband had turned himself in to the police after losing personal contact with his wife and being stalled by the brothers. Officials eventually opened the apartment and found the 22-year-old’s body. The young woman was murdered just four days after her second marriage.
The judge in the verdict: “The accused denied her the right to live according to her own ideas”. The accused did not testify in court. But witness statements, driving profiles, mobile phone data and DNA traces weighed heavily on Zairk.
The two brothers were only caught in 2021, the verdict against the younger brother is still pending, he has just been sentenced in Italy to 7 years in prison for drug trafficking.