2 convicted of homophobic attack that killed German musician
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BERLIN (AP) — A court in Berlin has convicted two men of killing a German pop musician in an apparent homophobic attack.
A regional court in the German capital on Tuesday found the Polish defendants guilty of manslaughter and serious sexual assault in the death of 47-year-old Jim Reeves.
The defendants claimed to have been drunk during the February 2016 attack in a Berlin hostel. Judges said they brutally beat Reeves and repeatedly impaled him with a chair leg.
Reeves died of multiple internal injuries.
German news agency dpa quoted judges saying the attack expressed the men’s “degrading, homophobic feelings.”
Article continues after this advertisementThe defendants, who are 31- and 24-years-old, were sentenced to 14 and 13 years imprisonment, respectively. Their names weren’t released due to German privacy rules.
Article continues after this advertisementReeves had a number of dance hits in Germany in the 1990s. NVG
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