The spouses from Germany, who received a lifelong sentence for the murder of a mother and daughter from Ukraine for the abduction of a child, appealed the decision of the Land Court of the city of Manngame.
How reports Spiegel, a 45-year-old defendant and her 43-year-old husband, sentenced to life imprisonment, appealed. The date of consideration is not specified. Last month The couple admitted in the murder of a 27-year-old Ukrainian and her 51-year-old mother in order to abduct a 5-week child.
They explained their criminal acts by the fact that after several miscarriages and unsuccessful treatment for infertility, they decided to kidnap the newborn girl and give her to their daughter.
According to prosecutors, The couple deliberately chose refugees from Ukraine with their targetsjoining the group in Telegram to offer help with the translation. The younger Ukrainian lived with her mother and a child in a hostel for refugees in the southwestern German city of Vislokh when she met this couple.
Earlier, our publication said that in Germany Husband and wife accused of the murder of Ukrainians Marina and Margarita Stetsenko admitted to the crime For the sake of kidnapping. The German law enforcement officers managed to find the missing baby the murdered Ukrainian as soon as possible.
The accused admitted to the murder of two Ukrainians to pick up the newborn child the last. This is a married couple living in Germany. They decided to kill the girl and her mother a week after the birth of a child, in February 2024, the indictment said:
“To increase the chances of kidnapping a child, a 44-year-old woman joined the support group of Ukrainian refugees in Telegram, through which she contacted a 27-year-old victim in January 2024 when she was looking for a translator for her daughter's upcoming birth.”
Later, on March 6, 2024, during a visit to the restaurant, the couple “secretly introduced” sedatives to both women. Then the alleged criminals pretended that the older woman who felt a bad woman was taken to the hospital, and the girl and her newborn daughter were taken home.
After that, the man, presumably, killed his mother who had lost consciousness on the lake in Bad-Schonborn, several times hit her on the head with an unknown object. After some time, he also killed a young woman in Hockeyhaim in the same way, and burned the corpse. Then the couple left home with the child. The body of the senior Ukrainian, after a two -week searches, was discovered on March 20. Investigators found him on the shore of the lake near Hokkenheim.
Mother, grandmother and child lived in the center of placement of refugees in the Rhine-Nekkar district after they moved to Germany from Ukraine, fleeing the war. The police arrested a married couple on March 13, 2024, after investigators discovered her child.
The baby was returned to Ukraine, the child is under the care of his aunt.
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