türkçe links to original Turkish article
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 3 February 2021)
Killer took victim's example and wore a tie for
a "good behavior" sentence reduction.
Ali Rıza Sağnak (32) was living in Adıyaman in 2011 when he decided
to go to Austria to make a better life for himself. While studying in
Vienna University's Electronics Department, Sağnak also drove a taxi
to help with his expenses.
Adıyaman policeman Oktay Şener (36), who Sağnak knew from high
school, resigned from the police force in July 2017 and asked Sağnak
for help in coming to Austria with his family. Sağnak helped him to
do this.
On 21 May 2018, Şener sent a message via Instagram to Sağnak's
older sister Aysun Sağnak Başoğlu in the United States, saying that he
and Sağnak were going to Germany for a course and that they would
be starting a company. Subsequently, Başoğlu tried but failed to reach
her brother. So she called Şener, who told her that Sağnak was fine,
had a girlfriend and would be coming to Germany in a week or so.
Nevertheless, Başoğlu had two of Sağnak's friends go to the Vienna
police to file a missing-persons report about Sağnak. The same day,
the police went to Sağnak's house, broke down the door and found
Sağnak stabbed to death on the floor. His throat had been cut and
there were cut marks on his hands and arms, indicating that he had
put up a struggle. It was determined forensically that Sağnak was
killed on 21 May.
A week earlier, Şener had sent his family back to Turkey and after
Sağnak's body was discovered he, too, returned to Turkey. Meanwhile,
Şener's DNA was found on a bandage under the body and on the
bloody knife used in the murder. In addition, a check of Şener's
cellphone records showed him to be in the area of Sağnak's home
from 2154 on 20 May to 0305 on 21 May.
The Vienna police had Interpol issue a warrant for Şener's arrest
and he was apprehended in Izmir on 5 October 2018 but released (!).
Upon the prosecutor's objection, Şener was re-arrested on 9 October.
The ninth hearing in the case was held on 21 January 2021 and
Şener was sentenced to life in prison. However (!), the court ruled
that Şener's good behavior in court was worth reducing the sentence
to 25 years.
Sağnak's family was infuriated by the reduction, with his older sister
Aysun hanım lamenting that "he got a good-behavior reduction for
wearing a 5 TL necktie to the court."
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