‘Cold-blooded’ ice cream vendor on trial for murder

A woman described as “singularly cold-blooded” has gone on trial in Austria accused of murdering two men and setting their sawn-up body parts in concrete in the cellar of her ice cream parlour.

Dubbed the “trial of the year” in Austrian media, Goidsargi Estibaliz Carranza Zabala, who has joint Spanish-Mexican citizenship, is charged with shooting dead her husband in 2008 and killing her new partner in 2010.

Prosecutors allege she then sliced up the bodies of her first victim Holger Holz and the second, Manfred Hinterberger, with a chain saw and concealed the pieces in lumps of concrete that she mixed in the cellar under her “Schleckeria” shop in Vienna.