Couple in wharf for rape-murder of Chinese student

November 25, 2016

The 21-year-old defendants are believed to have lured a 25-year-old design student, who had left jogging in a city of Dessau, to an dull unit in May this year.

The pair, called Sebastian F. and Xenia I. in internal media reports, afterwards allegedly raped a lady repeatedly, withdrawal her with such serious injuries that they insincere she would die in a flat, prosecutors said.

When a integrate returned hours after and found a victim, identified in media reports as Li Yangjie, still alive, they carried a exceedingly bleeding lady divided and deserted her in underbrush.

After friends in Germany and China alerted a authorities that she was missing, military organized a hunt for a woman, who was from a eastern range of Henan. Her remains was found dual days later.

An autopsy found she had suffered blows to a head, torso and extremities.

Sebastian F. is also indicted of dual serve rapes committed in a summer of 2013 in Dessau that usually came to light in a march of a other investigation.

Friday’s conference finished after an hour, during that prosecutors review out a charges, probity orator Frank Straube told AFP.

“The dual defendants are not addressing a accusations opposite them for a time being,” he said.

The victim’s relatives are co-plaintiffs in a box though were not benefaction in a courtroom on Friday, Straube added.

After a murder came to light, hundreds of Chinese students and internal residents hold a convene in Li’s memory to direct justice.

Beyond a startle during a savagery of a crime, a box also caused debate in Germany and China since a mom and stepfather of Sebastian F. are both military officers.

The hearing is scheduled to final until February. The defendants could face adult to 15 years in jail if convicted.

Chinese consulate gives warning about Germany

On Wednesday German media reported that a Chinese consulate in Düsseldorf had expelled a warning to a adults to “pay courtesy to their personal security, quite in remote areas.”

According to Der Westen, a matter in Chinese on a consulate website referred to “the stream confidence conditions in a area of responsibility” but going into some-more specific detail.

The matter was expelled after a Chinese tyro was raped on her approach home from university in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, progressing in November.

Police are looking for witnesses to a attack, indicating that a lady who was walking her dog and a male who asked a tyro for directions shortly before a conflict could yield clues.

The think is described as being between 30 and 35 years old, 1.70 metres high and of Arabic appearance. On Monday military expelled a photofit of a man.

Source: Bochum police