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Dortmund (dpa) - More than 27 years after the violent death of a schoolgirl in Dortmund, the Dortmund jury court could speak the verdict against the alleged murderer on Wednesday (from 9.15 a.m.).
The 56-year-old man was arrested in the summer of 2018.
Previously, DNA analyzes of crime scene traces had brought the police on the trail of the multiple criminal record.
Since the end of 2018, the man has been tried for murder.
He denies the act.
The then 16-year-old schoolgirl was strangled late in the evening on her way home in autumn 1993.
The partially unclothed body was found the next morning by cleaning staff at a school.
The perpetrator had hidden the dead woman under a hedge in the school yard.
The trial against the 56-year-old German had to be broken off in January 2020 after a judge became permanently ill.
Before the restart of the hearing in summer 2020, the higher regional court in Hamm had released the accused from pretrial detention.
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On Wednesday, the public prosecutor's, co-prosecution and defense pleadings are to be held first.
Whether the verdict will be pronounced afterwards depends on the length of the final speeches.