Brutal attack in Vienna: Homeless woman fights for her life after a serious act of violence!

Brutal attack in Vienna: Homeless woman fights for her life after a serious act of violence!

In Vienna, a 30-year-old man was sentenced to six years in prison after he attempted to sexually rape a severely impaired woman in front of a homeless shelter in August 2024. The defendant acted brutally: he beat the woman, kicked her and even choked her, which resulted in a serious injury, a displaced fracture of the nose. Despite his remorseful confession, the defendant did not remember the crime. The expert Peter Hofmann described his behavior as a “fulminant expression of the most severe aggression” and also found that the man was significantly drunk at the time of the crime. The circumstances of his life, including the early death of his schizophrenic mother, played a role in the trial. The court decided to also commit him to a forensic therapeutic facility, continued the jury led by Judge Philipp Krasa. The woman also received compensation of 5,000 euros, even though she had previously been the victim of attempted murder Small newspaper reported.

Murder conviction in Tyrol

A similar level of brutality was evident in Tyrol, where a 52-year-old man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday after the death of a 75-year-old former local politician. The defendant confessed to inflicting fatal injuries on the victim with an axe-like object following a dispute over a property rezoning. Despite his psychiatric problems, which he attributed to his difficult childhood, the court ruled that he was sane at the time of the crime. Judge Andrea Wegscheider stated that the verdict was not final, and the public prosecutor and defense provided no further information. The Tyrolean daily newspaper reported that the defendant had killed a “deserving community citizen” in a “horror film”-like act of violence. The key issues in this case were sanity and possible mitigating circumstances in which the court determined the sentence.