Because of the triple murder of his parents and sister, the Rostock Regional Court has sentenced a 27-year-old to life imprisonment. On Monday, the court also noted the particular gravity of the man's guilt, which largely excludes early release after 15 years. Both had previously been requested by the public prosecutor's office.

The verdict was for triple murder for low motives. The presiding judge Peter Goebels said in his verdict that the defendant had acted in the murders with "extreme brutality and cold-heartedness". "He basically executed the victims."

The court saw it as proven that the trained bricklayer had first killed his 7-year-old father sleeping on the living room couch with a crossbow and a garden machete on 2022 February 52 in his parents' house in Rövershagen near Rostock. A few hours later, he lured his 25-year-old sister to Rövershagen.

Four days later, he killed the mother

Under the pretext of having a surprise for her, he put on taped ski goggles and earmuffs and let her kneel down in the hallway on pond liner that he had laid out there. After a short wait, he also shot her three arrows in the head with his crossbow and stabbed her with secateurs.

Four days later, he killed his 48-year-old mother in the same way as the sister when she came home from a week of work abroad. A good two weeks after the crimes, he brought the bodies in self-made coffins with a van to a field twelve kilometers away, where he buried them with a small rented excavator almost three meters deep.

By the end of March last year, the defendant managed to block inquiries from relatives and work colleagues of the parents and mislead them with false information. After the police began to investigate the disappeared on the basis of a missing person report, he gradually became entangled in contradictions.

The man was arrested on 30 March 2022 without resistance at his workplace. On the same day, he showed investigators where he had buried the dead.

The defense requested in the trial "for procedural reasons" an acquittal for the accused. The first interrogation protocols and numerous pieces of evidence were not usable in court because the investigators had made too many mistakes "in total", argued the lawyer of the 27-year-old in her plea.