Date lured into a trap and killed: Nine years in prison for 20-year-old

On June 28, 2023, 20-year-old Kevin R. lured his friend, 25-year-old Daniel P., into the basement of an old grain silo in Lindenau Harbor. But while Daniel P. thought the two would have sex, Kevin R. had other plans.
He wanted to rob the 25-year-old, who was in love with the defendant, because he had promised him a loan for a moped, but in reality he was broke. Kevin R. tied the victim’s hands behind his back – consensually -, taped a sock over his mouth and pushed the man into a concrete tub filled with water.
The victim, father of a then two-year-old son, suffocated painfully. His body was only discovered in the granary by lost-places adventurers on July 27, four weeks after the crime.
In court, the defendant stated that he only wanted to teach his victim a lesson because he had used him sexually. He said he was not gay and had only had sex with the victim because of the expected loan.
On the evening of the crime, he said he stole his victim’s bank card and cell phone. When he returned to the industrial ruins the next day, Daniel P. was already dead.
After his arrest in September, Kevin R. initially accused another person of the crime. He later admitted to lying. Judge Bernd Gicklhorn also addressed this issue: “You have never managed to get anything right in your life and you always blame others,” he told the defendant.
The judge sentenced the now 20-year-old to nine years under youth criminal law. He considered that the murder characteristic of treachery was fulfilled. “He alone is to blame for the fact that a person is no longer alive and that a child has no chance to get to know his father,” the judge said of the defendant.
Since Kevin R. was 19 years old at the time of the crime and suffered from maturity deficits, he was sentenced under juvenile criminal law. Here, the maximum sentence for murder is ten years instead of life imprisonment. The verdict is not final.