Hussein Khavari, of uncertain age and origin, was found guilty of the deadly night-time attack on medical student Maria Ladenburger, 19, in October 2016 in the university town of Freiburg. Schenk said she saw almost no chance of rehabilitation, telling Khavari that "you would have to become an entirely different human being". Khavari had been arrested seven weeks after the murder, following a huge manhunt in the town near the French border. A police officer told the court that Khavari's cellphone and social media accounts suggested he had lived in Iran. Khavari had also claimed that his father died long ago in a battle against Afghanistan's Taliban.

Source: The Local March 22, 2018 08:48 UTC