Homeless twice-murderer sentenced to life imprisonment

The Budapest Court of Appeal has proposed to uphold the life sentence of the man who killed two people within a few months.

In its first-instance judgment of 19 January 2023, the Balassagyarmat Court of First Instance found the middle-aged man guilty of the crime of manslaughter of several people and sentenced him to life imprisonment and his female accomplice to 10 years imprisonment.

According to the facts of the conviction, the accomplices were living together as partners under a bridge in Salgótarján. In the autumn of 2020, they were joined by another homeless man who, in a drunken state, repeatedly made sexual advances to the woman, who regularly turned him down. Her then partner then stabbed the victim, who was drunk and lying on a mattress, seven times, after which she took the knife and stabbed him twice more in the chest. The victim died within minutes. The body was hidden by the woman. The relationship between the perpetrators broke down soon after the incident and the woman fled to Germany.