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Dortmund (dpa / lnw) - More than 27 years after the violent death of a schoolgirl in Dortmund, the Dortmund jury court wants to announce the verdict today.
The public prosecutor has requested life imprisonment for murder for the 56-year-old defendant.
The German is said to have strangled the then 16-year-old adolescent in October 1993 on the way home from a bus stop and then partially stripped her.
The defendant was arrested in the summer of 2018.
Subsequent DNA analyzes of crime scene traces had resulted in a hit at the time.
The man already has a criminal record for several violent crimes against women.
However, he denies having anything to do with the crime.
In his last word before the judgment session, he addressed the judges directly and said: “I am innocent.
Please clear me. "
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