An appeals court sentenced a 40-year-old man to 15 years and 8 months in prison for killing his 43-year-old neighbor with a hunting rifle and injuring his wife because of the volume of the music.

The murder was committed in September 2018 in the village of Roma on the heights of Diavat in Thessaloniki. The perpetrator’s hand allegedly “armed” the remark he received from the victim three 24 hours earlier because he played loud music from his home speakers and it could be heard up to his house, a hundred meters away.

According to the indictment, the 40-year-old man broke the window of the house, first shooting at the victim’s wife, but not hitting her, as she managed to hide behind the sofa. The victim responded to the first shots, wounding the defendant in the stomach with a pistol. The defendant fired new shots, as a result of which his 43-year-old neighbor was mortally wounded.

“I didn’t mean to kill him, I was defending myself,” the defendant said, among other things, claiming to have consumed alcohol while apologizing to the victim’s family.

In the first instance, a 40-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years in prison with the recognition of a mitigating circumstance that he was driven to the act due to the inappropriate behavior of the victim. After being reconvicted, he returned to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence.

Source: RES