Why has Klaus O. poison sprinkled on the break loaves of colleagues? One answer to this is no longer the victim, the silent now Condemned. The court spoke of a “spooky” series.
Klaus O. (right) comes from the hall with his counsel on the day of the verdict in the court
It is an enigmatic case. For years, the industry has loaves mechanic Klaus O. his work colleague with a poisoned Pause and drink health damaged. It is totally unclear what he had intended. The district court in Bielefeld sentenced the 57-Year-old for attempted murder and various assault-related offences to life imprisonment. As the judges of a slope going out to other more serious crimes, and ordered the subsequent preventive detention for the man. The court also noted the particular Severity of the debt, and thus early release from prison after 15 years is as good as excluded.
One of Klaus O. s colleagues from the operation in Eastern Westphalia, Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock had repeatedly discovered a suspicious white powder on his bread, and finally photographed. A easy set-up video surveillance, Klaus O. convicted in the act. When he believed himself unobserved, and went o to the pockets of colleagues, put the powder on the bread and grabbed everything calmly again. This was in the spring of 2018. At a murder trial, none of the colleagues thought up to this point, more like a bad joke. In Klaus O., the investigators found several chemicals, such as lead acetate, Cadmium, lead and mercury, as well as a notes notebook. Moreover, the traces documented on his Computer, that he worked with chemicals.
The Accused is silent
The lawyer of one of the victims, said before the trial began on 15. November 2018: “There was a relationship of trust as in any operation among colleagues; no one has expected something like this.” The trained tool-maker, Klaus O. was regarded as technically well-versed, helped with problems, and went otherwise to his colleagues out of the way. A conversation about Private a Cup of coffee there, but also no dispute.
Before the district court of Bielefeld it comes to attempted murder
The former colleagues appealed to the accused to respond, finally, to the subject. You wanted to hear from his mouth why they kidneys have been over the years after repeated poisoning is getting worse, sick. A third colleague could not attend the proceedings. His parents described on the witness stand, as her earlier, happier life son first light numbness and Weakness complained of, it is a mystery, always severely ill and today in coma. With a severe brain damage, he is a care case. Prospects for improvement there is not.
“As a scientist, experimenting with rabbits”
Clues to the motive supply may be five conversations that the defendant in the past few months in the prison of Bielefeld with a psychologist. This prison employees, according to the defendant wanted to experiment with substances as a scientist with the poison. According to his impression of the 57 I want to watch-Year-old at his colleagues, such as the poison bread to your Break works, said the psychologist on Tuesday as a witness before the district court of Bielefeld. “His Statements to his subject appeared to me to be like a scientist who tried, how substances act in the case of a rabbit,” said the psychologist. Otherwise, nothing more than speculation.
Prosecutors demanded life imprisonment
The judge accepted the claim of the public Prosecutor to life imprisonment followed by preventive detention. Life imprisonment for attempted murder of the exception are met in Germany. “I have seen a judgment in my career”, the Berlin victims ‘ lawyer Roland Weber before sentencing. As Klaus O. is mentally healthy, he is fully culpable. A reduction in the sentence of arbitration.
The defender expressed the view that because of the two cases in which the alleged victim of the kidneys were damaged, is, at best, justify a custodial sentence of a maximum of nine years. A reference to the brain damage of the third victim, Klaus O. had been in the procedure has not been established. All 21 deaths have been reviewed since the year 2000, the operation was purely a precautionary measure. At the conclusion of the pleadings, the yet silent defendants expressed for the first time. “I agree with the comments made by my defender to the full extent” – that remained his only sentence.