Family outraged by verdict

“Just wanted justice for Christa”

The defendant maintained that he did not know when Christa P. had taken the lethal morphine.

(Bild: Wenzel Markus/Markus Wenzel)

He admitted that he had let his acquaintance die, then buried her and denied the crime until his nephew mistakenly blew the whistle. The family of Christa P. (55), who was buried in a field for eight months, groaned angrily when the sentence handed down to the 44-year-old was too lenient for them.

"Can we appeal", "So this is worth a human life" - relatives shouted to the judge immediately after the verdict in the Christa P. case. The Linz man (44), in whose apartment the mother of two (55) had died of a morphine overdose in October of the previous year and who had buried her in a field 300 meters away, got off "too cheaply" in the eyes of the family.