A forensic medicine report confirming that Yıldırım's mental health was intact, was submitted to the court in November 2014.On March 2015, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. No abatement was imposed on her sentence.
12 Ocak 2015 günü, davanın 13. celsesinde savcı Osman Çabuk, ilk iddianamesindeki sadece “canavarca hisle” ibaresini çıkartarak, “tasarlayarak kasten öldürmekten ağırlaştırılmış müebbet” istemiyle mütalaa verdi.