Husband & wife hit with murder charge after killing young mother, kidnapping baby

A German court on Monday deliver verdict in the trial of a couple who killed a Ukrainian refugee and her mother in March 2024 to steal a newborn baby. The German couple admitted to killing the 27-year-old Ukrainian woman and her 51-year-old mother in order to abduct the younger woman’s five-week-old baby at first day of the trial at Mannheim District Court The accused told the court that after suffering a number of miscarriages and failed fertility treatment, they hatched a plan to kidnap a newborn girl and pass her off as their daughter. ALSO READ: Court sends medical doctor to 7 years in prison for N127m fraud According to the public prosecutor’s office, the couple have a total of four children, including one son together. The 45-year-old woman and her 43-year-old husband are from Sandhausen, near Heidelberg. “I regret everything I have done,” the man said in a statement read out by lawyers on Jan. 7, his wife added, “I made a big mistake.” The prosecution has brought charges of murder and child abduction . ALSO READ: Bandits sneak into Niger from Kaduna, kill vigilante, kidnap 6 girls The couple intentionally targeted refugees from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, joining a group on Telegram to offer help with translation, prosecutors said. The younger Ukrainian woman was living with her mother and baby in a refugee accommodation in the south-western German town of Wiesloch when she came into contact with the couple. Earlier, on March 6, 2024, they allegedly sedated the two Ukrainian refugees in a restaurant before the man killed them with a blunt object in two separate locations. They sank the grandmother’s body in a lake and burnt the mother’s body before driving home with the baby. ALSO READ: Police arrest man for defrauding American woman $597k in online love romance