Defense attorney speaks for two and a half hours - and requests an acquittal for Gina H.

In the case of the killed eight-year-old Fabian from Güstrow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a defense attorney for the defendant has requested an acquittal. 30-year-old Gina H. should not be convicted because a suspicion has become more familiar over the course of the long trial, because the accusation has been presented coherently or because the public wants answers to their questions, said Thomas Löcker as part of his plea on the 34th day of the trial.

For about two and a half hours he expressed his doubts about the evidence in the mammoth trial. The defense comes to the conclusion that “many questions must remain unanswered and therefore there is no closed chain of evidence at the end.” He invoked the principle “in dubio pro reo” – in case of doubt for the defendant.

On Thursday, the public prosecutor's office and Fabian's mother's lawyer pleaded as co-plaintiffs. They had requested that the Germans be convicted of murder, given a life sentence, and that the particular gravity of the guilt be determined. In the event of a corresponding legally binding judgment, early release from prison after just 15 years would be practically impossible.

Löcker doubted numerous pieces of evidence, for example pointing to traces of fibers that had been seized. Analyzes did not provide evidence that the traces belonged to the defendant's or Fabian's clothing, he said. It was simply pointed out that this was a possibility. A trace of Fabian's blood found on a kitchen roll in the defendant's car could not be assigned to the time, he said. According to Gina H., it comes from a bathing trip during which she treated Fabian's small wound. Löcker also questioned the credibility of certain witnesses.

The defendant lived in a relationship with Fabian's father for several years. The public prosecutor is convinced that the motive for the crime is also linked to this relationship. She is convinced that the woman stabbed Fabian in October 2025 at a pond near Klein Upahl, southwest of Güstrow. A representative of the public prosecutor's office spoke of a “clear chain of evidence”. Gina H. denied the allegations in the proceedings.

According to the prosecutor's opinion, from the defendant's point of view, Fabian stood in the way of continuing the relationship with Fabian's father. According to the information, he separated from her in August 2025. There was also talk of the father's alleged punishment for the crime.

According to his own statements, Löcker does not believe in a corresponding motive. His client was unable to identify an absolutely exceptional situation that could explain such an act at the time in question.

The lawyer said that Gina H. was in Güstrow on the day of Fabian's disappearance and referred to video recordings that presumably show her car. He also spoke of a photo that the woman took a little later on a forest path, about 1.6 kilometers from where the body was later found. The day before she reported the discovery of the body to the police, the defendant was at the site with two acquaintances. Löcker questioned to what extent an actual perpetrator who wanted to cover up a crime would behave like this.

On Friday, the plea from the second defense attorney, Andreas Ohm, was still scheduled. The defendant will then have the opportunity for final words before a verdict, which is scheduled to be announced on November 10th.