Man murdered both parents because his wife ‘wanted him to herself’

A wife urged her husband to kill both his parents because she wanted ‘to have him to herself’.

He did as she said, bludgeoning his mother, 66, with a hammer as she lay in bed, then also killing his father, 70.

After the attacks, the couple bricked up their bodies behind a wall in their house, where investigators found them weeks later.

Both the man, 26, and his wife, 23, have been found guilty of murder, German news agency dpa reported.

The prosecutors argued that while the man’s wife was not present for the killings, she was jointly responsible because she had urged the husband to kill his parents.

The Nuremberg-Fuerth regional court sentenced the couple to life in prison.

The verdict can be challenged.