Trials – Würzburg – man kills wife suffering from dementia: trial starts – Bavaria

Würzburg (dpa / lby) – Because he killed his wife with dementia after 70 years of marriage, a 92-year-old has to answer for manslaughter before the Würzburg district court from today (9 a.m.). The public prosecutor assumes that the man acted out of hopelessness – because he and his wife could not lead a life together in health and self-determination. Because the 91-year-old would have come to a home because of her progressive illness.

Her husband previously cared for her at home in Gemünden (Main-Spessart district). On the night of the crime at the beginning of November 2019, the defendant also wanted to take his own life. The attempt failed. In a farewell letter, he is said to have written that it was the common will of the couple to part from life together.

Whether the woman with dementia was mentally able to decide about her life and to reconsider the scope of this decision will in all probability become part of the negotiation. The public prosecutor suspects a severe depressive mood behind the crime. It can be assumed that the German is less liable for guilt.

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