Prison Term for Afghan Individual Who Killed Former Spouse in Presence of Daughter
Man Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Femicide in Germany
A 37-year-old Afghan man, Wahid H., was sentenced to life imprisonment on September 16th, 2025, for murdering his ex-wife in Bensheim, Hesse, in December 2024. The court labelled the killing as a femicide.
The attack was witnessed by their 11-year-old daughter, who testified during the trial that she heard cracking bones and screams in the kitchen, and saw her father stabbing her mother in the neck and attempting to tear her head off.
The couple, who stem from Afghanistan, had married in 2012 and moved to Germany in 2021 to escape political persecution and the Taliban regime. The family had sought refuge in Germany to find a better life.
The court heard testimonies revealing a long history of domestic violence. Wahid H. had physically abused his wife with blows and kicks. Despite this, he had not expressed anything to his children following the murder.
The judge described Wahid H. as an 'archaic man' with a 'proprietary claim over his wife.' The judge also expressed a lack of empathy from Wahid H. towards his children, specifically his daughter.
The judge's remarks indicated that Wahid H.'s wife had moved into a separate apartment with their children. However, the text does not provide information about the current status of Wahid H.'s children.
Prosecutors argued that the man killed his ex-wife with a knife out of base motives. It is not specified in the provided text if Wahid H. was in possession of a knife during the murder.
The court did not find any particularly severe guilt in the case. Wahid H. confessed to the attack shortly before the verdict, which mitigated his sentence slightly.
Germany has revised its laws on possessing knives in public places due to widespread migrant knife crime, including from Afghans. However, it is not specified in the provided text if the revised knife laws were directly related to the case.
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