Attempted Murder of Husband in Upper Austria: Conviction of 33-Year-Old is Final

This was announced by the Regional Court of Ried on Thursday. A final conviction was only reached in the third round of proceedings: After the first trial, the professional judges overturned the verdict, and after the second, the OGH overturned the judgment.

The Conviction is Final

In the summer of 2022, the woman mixed calming medication into her husband's food in the Schärding district, with whom she has four children, and inflicted a long cut on his neck with a knife or razor blade while he was sleeping - "undoubtedly to let him bleed to death," as the prosecution noted. The victim survived thanks to an emergency operation. The 33-year-old repeatedly presented different versions of the events of the night of the crime. At first, she claimed her husband attacked her and she grabbed a carpet knife in self-defense. Later, she denied this and suggested that it might have been her daughter, who was not of criminal age at the time of the crime.

In September of the previous year, the woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempted murder at the Regional Court of Ried during the third iteration of the trial. In the first round, the professional judges suspended the jury's verdict, which was only for serious bodily harm, and in the second - 14 years for attempted murder - the OGH overturned the judgment because a witness had not been heard. However, the case is still not completely closed: The Higher Regional Court of Linz still has to decide on the woman's appeal against the sentence, i.e., whether the 15 years will remain or the sentence will be reduced.

(APA/Red)

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