Germany: Ex-nurse convicted of killing 4 at disabled home

BERLIN (AP) — A erstwhile caregiver astatine a location for the severely disabled successful eastbound Germany was convicted of execution and fixed a 15-year condemnation connected Wednesday for sidesplitting 4 residents.

The authorities tribunal successful Potsdam ordered the 52-year-old pistillate sent to a pyschiatric hospital, German quality bureau dpa reported. She besides was convicted of attempted execution and ill-treatment of radical successful her care.

Judges recovered that the suspect fatally wounded the 4 residents, 3 of whom were wholly and 1 partially paralyzed, with a weapon successful their rooms connected April 28. Another nonmigratory survived aft an exigency operation.

A psychiatric study recovered that the pistillate committed the onslaught successful a authorities of reduced transgression responsibility, and the defence had called for the tribunal to find that she wasn’t criminally responsible.

The suspect apologized to the victims’ relatives successful a closing connection to the trial.