The father of a German teenage gunman who went on a shooting spree in a school three years ago has had his sentence for negligence marginally reduced to one and half years probation.
Tim K., who was 17 at time, shot dead a total of 15 people, including himself, in the March 2009 rampage in the small southwest towns of Winnenden and Wendlingen.
In handing down its decision, the court in Stuttgart confirmed Friday an original ruling that his 54-year-old father Joerg K. had shown negligence by failing to lock a gun stored in a wardrobe, as required by law
A year ago, Joerg K. was sentenced to one year and nine months probation.
But a retrial was necessary after Germany's highest criminal and private law court, the Federal Court of Justice, ruled in April that technical errors had occurred during the first trial.