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A Court sitting in Neubrandenburg to the North of Berlin on Tuesday handed down a lengthy sentence to an 80-year-old man who killed a Lawyer.
The 80-year-old man shot and killed a Lawyer in her office in a dispute over money.
The court found the man guilty of manslaughter and illegal possession of a firearm, but did not press the original charge of murder.
The sentence totaled seven years and eight months.
The man, who was not named under German privacy laws, admitted entering the lawyer’s office on Feb. 1, this year armed with a pistol that he had acquired illegally.
He told the court that he had been acquainted with the lawyer’s husband and had lent him a sum of 110,000 dollars to set up an import business after German reunification in 1990.
An attempt to recover the money failed despite a 2004 civil court ruling that the loan was outstanding.
“He felt abused, lied to and deceived,’’ the judge said. Attempts to talk to the lawyer were in vain.
After firing the fatal shots, the man fled in a bus and hid the pistol before going shopping and returning to his one-room high-rise apartment in Waren an der Mueritz, a town of some 21,000 inhabitants in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
dpa/NAN