Ayse Y. born:
stabbed to death: April 2003
Residence: Obertshausen (near Offenbach)
Origin: Turkey
Children: one daughter (born 1994), one son (born 1990)
Perpetrator: her husband, aged 34 at the time of the crime.
Nothing would be known about this honor killing if not for the aftermath: In December 2008, 19-year-old Rasit Y. stabbed his father to death in his sleep to avenge the murder of his mother. Both acts happened in the same apartment. The Darmstadt court will open the trial in May 2009, so the case will be in the media again.
Only this is known: In April 2003, the truck driver stabs his wife to death. His lawyer will later say that her modern, Western-oriented lifestyle was her downfall (indicating an honor killing). The traditionally minded husband could not cope. The two had a daughter and a son.
Ayse's killer is sentenced to 7 years in prison for manslaughter, but is released in the summer of 2008 after 5 years. A few months later his son stabs him to death (see above).
The son was sentenced to a 6-year juvenile sentence by the district court of Darmstadt in May 2009.
Ayse is not the mother's real name.