A court has reduced a wife killer’s life sentence to just 11 years after bizarrely ruling that his victim was not defenceless.

IT consultant Roland L. knifed his wife Evi-Maria L. a dozen times at their home in Munich, Germany, in October 2020.

The new ruling means her killer could walk free in just four years thanks to time served and the killing being his first offence.

He had confronted the 38-year-old after discovering ‘sexts’ on her mobile phone to a man she had met online through the game The Elder Scrolls.

But when she simply replied “leave me alone, go away”, Roland L. set upon her in a rage.

Evi-Maria – who had never met the 35-year-old man she had been ‘sexting’ in person – died from stab wounds to the chest, throat, and head in the frenzied attack.

After stabbing her repeatedly, Roland L. strangled his victim, and she ended up choking to death on her own blood.

He then rolled up her body in a carpet, but instead of disposing of it, he turned himself in to police.

Roland L. was remanded in custody and was sentenced to life imprisonment for ‘insidious murder’ last year.

But a court in Munich has now downgraded his sentence to just ‘murder’.

The district court bafflingly ruled that there was no “guilelessness or defencelessness on the part of the victim” that Roland L. would have “knowingly exploited”.

The court added that during the couple’s argument prior to the killing, Evi-Maria had apparently told him: “I could kill you right now.”

During an earlier hearing, Roland L. had claimed his wife was first to set eyes on the knife, telling the court: “She wanted to grab it, but I took it first.

“I held her away with my left hand and stabbed her twice with my right.”

In accordance with the new conviction, the court reduced his sentence from life imprisonment to just 11 years.

As it is his first criminal offence, he may be eligible for release after serving just half that.