Murder trial of Fabian: Defendant (30) denies allegations in Rostock
In the murder case of eight-year-old Fabian from Güstrow, the 30-year-old defendant has testified for the first time before the Rostock Regional Court. She denies the deed.
Defendant testifies for first time: "I would not have been so stupid"
As Google News AT — Crime (de) reports, the 30-year-old defendant in the murder trial of the slain eight-year-old Fabian from Güstrow testified for the first time before the Rostock Regional Court on Monday and rejected the charges against her. In a written statement that was read aloud, she stated that she had seen the location where the body was found — a pond near Klein Upahl in the Rostock district — for the first time on 13 October.
According to the public prosecutor, the boy was killed on 10 October 2025. Witnesses had testified at trial that they saw the woman in her distinctive car on a field path near the discovery site that day. The defendant admitted that on the day of the alleged offence she had gone for walks both in Güstrow and near Klein Upahl — but had she committed the deed, she would "not have been so stupid" as to drive past witnesses.
The 30-year-old stated that she had found the body on the evening of 13 October, on two separate occasions with different friends each time. However, they had urgently advised her against notifying the police. She did not report the discovery until 14 October. The prosecution alleges that Fabian was stabbed at the pond, approximately 15 kilometres south of Güstrow, and that she subsequently set the body on fire.
The defendant also described her relationship with the child: her son, roughly the same age as her, and Fabian had got on well together. In August 2025, the three of them had visited a bathing lake together, where the boy suffered a minor injury to his foot. She had treated the barely bleeding wound with a plaster and dabbed it with a piece of kitchen paper — without tearing the paper off.
Investigators later found this very piece of kitchen paper with the child's blood in the rear door of her vehicle and entered it as evidence in the trial. The defendant read her entire statement from a large stack of A4 sheets.
The circumstantial evidence trial, which has been running since 28 April, has attracted considerable public interest: the first spectators began queuing outside the regional court at around 4.00 am. The courtroom has 100 spectator seats and 50 media seats available — far from enough for all those interested. To date, dozens of witnesses have been heard and numerous expert reports have been presented.
The final hearing date is scheduled for 10 September, when a verdict could be delivered.
Source: Google News AT — Crime (de)