"Benno had a manipulative attitude towards me and didn't want me to hang out with my friends."

This is the testimony of Nadine, a nurse from New Ulm, Bavaria, who had an affair with Benno Neumair two years ago. Today the young woman was heard as a witness at the trial before the Assize Court against Benno, a confessed criminal for the murder of his parents, committed on January 4, 2021.

For the reconstruction of the dynamics the case is practically solved, the process must establish whether Neumair was capable of understanding and wanting when he killed his parents. According to the psychiatric report carried out during the investigation, Benno would have been almost mentally ill at the time of the murder of his father Peter, but perfectly lucid a little later, when he killed his mother Laura.

At the trial several people - family members, ex-girlfriends and various acquaintances - are called to testify to describe Benno's personality, also recalling anecdotes.

"Living with him was difficult: he took money from me secretly, and in one case he had staged a fake assault of which he would have been the victim", recalled Nadine, explaining that that fake assault ended with mandatory health treatment for Benno, since he had even held a knife. In the afternoon his sister Madè was heard again, who reiterated: "Benno was lying all the time and I was afraid of him".

(Unioneonline / L)