After 40 years of friendship: Senior lady beats 77-year-old with a saucepan | EUROtoday

The courtroom got here to the conclusion {that a} yr in the past the senior citizen had crushed and fatally injured her 77-year-old girlfriend within the dispute over the cleansing up of purchases with a saucepan. The lady has been in custody for the reason that crime final summer season.

Unusual process

The presiding decide spoke of an uncommon process – additionally due to the outdated age of the accused. The two girls have mixed a friendship for over 40 years, which was more and more uneven. The accused felt mentally superior to her good friend whereas she additionally wanted her assist.

Hardly any doubt about

Already a number of instances earlier than the lethal crime, the accused not solely had a verbally but in addition bodily tract – which the girlfriend had accepted, mentioned the presiding decide in her reasoning.

The 90-year-old had solely chosen the emergency name days after the incident and reported a lifeless individual in her house. At the police she said that there was a dispute wherein she had reached the saucepan. Already at first of the process it was clear that there was mainly little doubt concerning the crime. However, the protection had at all times complained that the defendant had not been adequately instructed within the nightly interrogation.

The public prosecutor had requested for a lifelong imprisonment for homicide. The protection, however, had spoken out for acquittal from the accusation of homicide and for a conviction for much less critical bodily hurt with loss of life.