German Court Jails Trucker For Life Over Hitchhiker Murder
Muhammad Irfan Published September 18, 2019 | 04:27 PM
A German court sentenced a Moroccan trucker Wednesday to life in jail after finding that he murdered a 28-year-old student hitchhiker last year in a case pounced on by the far right
Bayreuth, Germany, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Sep, 2019 ) :A German court sentenced a Moroccan trucker Wednesday to life in jail after finding that he murdered a 28-year-old student hitchhiker last year in a case pounced on by the far right.
The 42-year-old driver named as Boujemaa Lamrabat, a Moroccan who lives in Spain, has been found guilty of killing Sophia Loesche to cover up the fact that he had severely injured her in a previous beating.
The court sided with the prosecution's call for a life sentence for murder rather than the defence's request for a lighter punishment for manslaughter.
Loesche had been hitching from her university in Leipzig, Saxony, towards her family home in Amberg, Bavaria, in June 2018 when she went missing.
After her disappearance, her family searched for her using social media and came into contact with Lamrabat before the police caught him.
Sophia's body was later found in a ditch by the side of a road in Spain.
Prosecutors said Lamrabat first beat her with a wheel wrench before finally killing her 10 minutes later.
The high-profile case was seized upon in Chemnitz, a city in far-right stronghold Saxony.
Loesche's image was one of a number of large-format photos demonstrators carried through the town as part of a "silent march", supposed to highlight violence committed by refugees.
The Loesche family has repeatedly said they see the case as one of violence against women, with no link to violence perpetrated by migrants.
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