A 37-year-old man who beat his step-father to death with a heavy wooden bench was sentenced on Thursday in the Linz Regional Court to 20 years in prison.
A Viennese taxi driver on trial for allegedly sexually abusing two teenagers has been accused by a third woman, who recognised him as she sat in on the court proceedings in May. He was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison.
Upper Austrian police, together with investigators from Lower Austria, Germany and the Netherlands, have arrested a group that had been stealing tractors and other agricultural machinery on a large scale and selling them online.
A 64-year-old pensioner from Walding in the district of Urfahr in Upper Austria was quick to spot a set of unauthorized withdrawals from his bank account, allowing police in Vienna to arrest the three perpetrators.
The trial of a man accused of the death of a 51-year-old dance teacher, Ingrid S., began Wednesday in the criminal court in Wels, in Lower Austria, according to a report in the Kurier newspaper.
A former policeman from the elite Viennese police special forces unit WEGA (Wiener Einsatzgruppe Alarmabteilung) appeared in court Tuesday to answer charges of carrying out an armed robbery, reportedly intending to finance a charitable aid project in Africa. He and his younger female accomplice were each sentenced to eight years in prison.
A 35-year-old lawyer from Vienna currently working in Germany is strongly suspected of having shot his 42-year-old ex-wife in Geneva on Saturday night according to a report in Kronen Zeitung.
The trial for the murder last September of 21-year-old Larissa Bieber from Tirol began and ended on Friday at the Innsbruck Regional Court. The defendant pled guilty, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Two Serbian men who broke into a Dorotheum antiques shop in Vienna, and committed scores of domestic burglaries, have been imprisoned for four and six years.
A former bank employee in Salzburg has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for embezzlement. He claimed that almost €90,000 had “fallen into a river” when he stopped to change his car tire.
A 41-year-old German woman stopped at the scene of an apparent accident on an isolated road in the Salzburger Anif, only to be robbed by the 'victim' at knifepoint.
An asylum-seeker from Albania has been arrested by police in Eferding, as the chief suspect in up to 55 separate break-ins. A pair of men were suspected as being involved.
Peter Seisenbacher, Austria’s most successful judo fighter and winner of two Olympic gold medals, is under investigation on suspicion of sexually harassing and sexually abusing under-age girls.
An elderly couple have been found dead in a house in Morzg, Salzburg. The bodies of an 89-year-old man and his 69-year-old wife were found on Tuesday afternoon.
