By Kathryn Quinn By far the sweetest date in the Vienna Ball calender – the Bonbon Ball took place this weekend. Without a doubt the highlight of the event is the Miss Bonbon vote – at the stroke of midnight the ten candidates who have been whittled down from over 180 possibles paraded onto the […]
The ice cream parlour owner who killed her husband and then her lover and buried them under concrete in a cellar has been found guilty of double murder, and jailed for life in a secure psychiatric institute. The jury at the court in Vienna took three hours to decide whether Estibaliz Carranza, 34, was really […]
The jury has finally settled on the choice of Christkind for the Salzburg Christmas market after a jury selected the winning candidate and 3 angels from the young girls that applied to take part at the weekend. The selection took place in the studio of RTS and the jury included advertising professional Nadica Petrovic who […]
A 26-year-old man was sentenced to 18 years in prison in a jury trial today (Thurs).The defendant was found guilty by the panel at a court in Klagenfurt of hacking his 29-year-old girlfriend to death with a pickaxe at their house in Lendorf in Carinthia last September.The jury rejected the defence lawyers appeal to allow […]
A Romanian karate and kickboxing champion has been sentenced to more than four years in jail for seriously injuring a woman during a burglary.The jury at a court in Graz heard yesterday (Tues) how the 30-year-old left his victim lying in a pool of blood in the summer of 2009. The man had gone into […]
A teenage girl who stabbed her mum to death after an argument over internet-surfing got out of control was jailed for murder yesterday (Weds).Angelika D., 14, told the jury at Vienna Criminal Court that she had had no intention to end her mothers life. But a psychiatrists report presented by prosecutor Christian Mayer concluded that […]
A Carinthian has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for killing a man by kicking his head “like a football” when an argument got out of control.The jury at Klagenfurts provincial court heard today (Tues) how the 21-year-old booted his opponents skull at a park in the city in June 2008. Witnesses said in […]