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More than two years after the murder of a 15-year-old in Berlin's Rummelsburger Bucht, the regional court in the capital has again sentenced a 43-year-old to life imprisonment.
The man had already been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and rape in March last year.
However, the Federal Court of Justice overturned the judgment on H.'s appeal, which is why another chamber of the district court had to reassess the man's criminal responsibility.
"No significant reduction in his controllability"
Bekim H. was found guilty of murder and rape again on Friday.
Presiding judge Bernd Miczajka said the chamber was unable to identify "any significant reduction in his controllability" at the time of the crime.
A report from that time had found that H. had an organic brain personality disorder.
He was also under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
However, based on a new report, the regional court could not find any evidence of a personality disorder.
Alcohol and drugs also did not reduce the defendant's ability to inhibit himself.
Previously placed in a psychiatric hospital
H. had pulled the student into a bush on a fallow site in August 2020 in the Friedrichshain district, raped and strangled her.
With the verdict, the court complied with the request of the public prosecutor.
However, H's defense had applied for his placement in the correctional facility.
The man had already been housed in a psychiatric hospital from 2001 to 2014 after a serious act of violence.
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