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Dortmund (dpa / lnw) - Even after being sentenced to life imprisonment by the Dortmund Regional Court, a 56-year-old man does not have to go to prison for the time being.
The Hamm Higher Regional Court confirmed a corresponding decision by the court against which the Dortmund public prosecutor had lodged an appeal.
The man was convicted of murder in January 27 years after the death of a schoolgirl.
The decision of the OLG is not contestable (Ref .: Ws 72/21).
The first trial against him was broken in early 2020 because of a sick judge, after he had been in custody for over two years.
The OLG released him from prison last year.
According to the judges, the judiciary had worked too slowly.
According to the Higher Regional Court in the summer of 2020, the acceleration requirement in detention matters was “not sufficiently taken into account”.
After the verdict, the district court did not issue an arrest warrant.
The 56-year-old does not have to go to jail until the verdict is final.
The OLG has now confirmed this view.
"The state's right to prosecute must, even if its weight has increased with the conviction of the defendant on January 25, 2021, back against the defendant's right to freedom," it says in support of the statement.
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The now convicted is said to have persecuted, ambushed and strangled a then 16-year-old student in Dortmund in October 1993.
At the time, the police had secured a flake of skin on the corpse, which after a subsequent DNA examination finally led to the arrest of Castrop-Rauxeler in 2018.
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