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Karlsruhe / Lübeck (dpa / lno) - The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has confirmed the judgment against a man who kidnapped and raped a student in October 2019.
The 5th criminal panel had rejected the defendant's appeal, the BGH announced on Friday.
The judgment is thus final.
In June 2020, the Lübeck Regional Court sentenced the then 43-year-old defendant to twelve years imprisonment for attempted murder, rape with bodily harm and deprivation of liberty.
According to the court's findings, in the early morning of October 12, 2019, the defendant brought under his control a student who was on her way home after a party in Lübeck.
He drove her out of town, raped her and then left her handcuffed and gagged in a hedge next to a dirt road in a deserted area.
He had accepted her death in order to cover up the previous rape, according to the verdict at the time.
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Even before this act, the accused had brought another woman into his power and locked her on the grounds of the garden plot he lived in.
However, she managed to break free and flee.
The defendant's defense had justified the appeal for appeal, among other things, by stating that there was no objective evidence that the defendant had raped the student.
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Press release from the Federal Court of Justice