German gets lifelong in twenty years old murder case

giessen - A court in Germany sentenced a man to life imprisonment almost twenty years after the violent death of an 8-year-old girl. According to the judges, the now 42-year-old Rick J. had kidnapped the girl Johanna in September 1999 in the federal state of Hesse and tried to rape her. Her body was found in a forest more than half a year later.

According to the chairman of the court in Giessen, the man overpowered Johanna 'without a doubt', stunned and locked up in his trunk. The German had wrapped the head of the child with fifteen meters of tape, making it a 'murder weapon' and leading to her death.