The Vienna Higher Regional Court (OLG) upheld an appeal by defense attorney Astrid Wagner, who represented the ex-boyfriend of the intentionally killed young woman. The decisive factor for the sentence reduction was numerous mitigating circumstances that the first court, in the opinion of the OLG, had not sufficiently considered.

The now 33-year-old strangled Scharinger in January 2018 in her apartment in Vienna-Brigittenau and subsequently buried her in a wooded area. „I am ashamed. I am ashamed that I did that,“ the man said in the Palace of Justice. He „did not have the courage to turn myself in“ and only approached the police after eight years out of „fear of responsibility.“

After the Supreme Court (OGH) had already confirmed the murder conviction in a non-public session a few weeks ago, the criminal investigation of the Scharinger case is now legally concluded with the current decision. The 33-year-old will serve his prison sentence in a forensic-therapeutic center due to a severe and lasting psychological disorder.

(APA/Red.)

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