Following the victim's death, "the court decided today at prosecutors' request that the deceased's body must be autopsied" in case of a new legal proceeding, Bielefeld state court spokesman Guiskard Eisenberg told AFP. In March last year, the court sentenced the then-57-year-old perpetrator Klaus O. to life in prison for attempted murder. Workers at the factory suffered grave kidney damage, prompting judges to sentence Klaus O. also for serious and dangerous bodily harm. A psychologist told the court that "in his statements about his motive, he seemed like a scientist testing substances out on a rabbit," German media reported at the time of the trial. Nevertheless, given the severity of the original sentence and a general ban on a higher sentence resulting from an appeal, there is no chance of a harsher punishment for the poisoner, he added.

Source: The Local January 10, 2020 16:41 UTC