Verdict now confirmed

33-year-old slashed husband’s neck in his sleep

The woman was sentenced at the regional court.

(Bild: ©Constantin Handl)

The guilty verdict for attempted murder against a 33-year-old woman who tried to kill her husband and then accused her then 13-year-old daughter of the crime during the trial in Upper Austria has been confirmed by the Supreme Court (OGH).

In the summer of 2022 in the district of Schärding, the woman reportedly mixed sedative medication into the food of her husband, with whom she has four children, and inflicted a long cut on his neck with a knife or razor blade while he was sleeping. "Undoubtedly to make him bleed to death", as the prosecution stated. The victim survived thanks to emergency surgery.

The 33-year-old repeatedly presented different versions of how the night of the crime unfolded. At first, she claimed that her husband had attacked her and that she had grabbed a box cutter in self-defense. She later denied this and claimed that it was her daughter, who was not of criminal age at the time of the crime.

Conviction at the third attempt
In September of the previous year, the woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempted murder in the third round of the trial at Ried Regional Court. In the first trial, the professional judges had suspended the jury's verdict, which had only been for grievous bodily harm; in the second - 14 years for attempted murder - the Supreme Court overturned the verdict because a witness had not been heard.

However, the case is not yet completely closed: the Linz Higher Regional Court still has to decide on the woman's appeal, i.e. whether the 15-year sentence will remain or be reduced.