German cleared of 'bathtub murder' after 13 years in jail

BERLIN: A German court on Friday exonerated a former custodian who had spent more than 13 years in prison for the suspected murder of an elderly woman found in a bathtub.

"It was not a murder, he is acquitted and thus innocent," a court spokesman said, referring to new evidence suggesting the death was accidental. Genditzki, now 63, who had worked in a large residential complex in the southern town of Rottach-Egern, had already successfully contested his conviction before a federal tribunal but was found guilty again by a Munich court in 2012.In a third trial based on advances in forensic science, his defence attorney Regina Rick was able to bring in new evidence showing that the water temperature in the tub where the woman was found pointed to a far different time of death than initially presumed.

Rick won her client's preliminary release last August on the basis of that evidence, given the mounting doubts about his guilt and Genditzki's previously clean criminal record.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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