On Boxing Day 2019, Ömer O. drove into a guardrail at excessive speed. The 20-year-old passenger died. Despite being convicted, the perpetrator remains at large, is allowed to finish his training and is then simply forgotten by the justice system. Four and a half years after his crime, the AMG speeder is in prison.
“The convicted man received the summons and turned himself in to appear in prison,” Liddy Oechtering, spokeswoman for the public prosecutor’s office, told MOPO. He has been serving his prison sentence of one year and eight months since June 18, two months of which have already been served. The fatal racer is in prison – four and a half years after his crime.
Ömer O., then 24 years old, raced through Finkenwerder in his AMG Mercedes on Boxing Day 2019. Also on board: a 20-year-old and her twin sister. The road was wet, the tires were worn out. The journey ended at a guardrail at 105 km/h. The speed limit was 50 km/h.
One of the two sisters died, the other was seriously injured. The same was true of the driver who caused the death, but who was caught speeding several times after being released from hospital. On one occasion he was driving 40 km/h too fast.
Ömer O. was convicted, but fought his way through all the courts to avoid being taken into custody. In vain: in 2023, the prison sentence of one year and eight months imposed by the district court for negligent homicide was confirmed by a higher court.
But O. was allowed to finish his training first. And he remained free after that – because the justice system had forgotten him.
“Today, during an inspection of the process, it emerged that the delay was due to a really very annoying oversight in the area of the Hamburg-Harburg District Court,” a spokesman for the Higher Regional Court replied in May to a query from MOPO, which was the first to report on this embarrassing blunder.
For the family of the two sisters, this at least means a little relief. “We are relieved that the time has finally come for him to be in prison and serving his sentence and perhaps thinking about what he has done to us,” Michael Koßmann told the “Abendblatt” on behalf of the victims’ family. (tst)
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The original of this article “After embarrassing judicial blunder, AMG death racer is in prison” comes from Mopo.
