Lena's killer is said to have raped a woman in a psychiatric ward

Created: 03/11/2022, 16:33

A sign with the coat of arms of Lower Saxony hangs at the entrance to the Oldenburg district court.

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The convicted murderer of eleven-year-old Lena from Emden is said to have raped a woman in a psychiatric ward and sexually assaulted another.

The now 29-year-old has to answer to the district court of Oldenburg from Monday, as a spokesman said.

In June 2020, according to the indictment, the man is said to have raped a patient on the grounds of a psychiatric facility in Bad Zwischenahn.

Oldenburg – Two months earlier he is said to have sexually assaulted a fellow patient there.

A spokesman for the public prosecutor's office was initially unable to answer on Thursday whether and why the man was allowed to move freely on the clinic premises.

According to the Oldenburg district court, the 29-year-old is now in another psychiatric hospital.

Lena's death in a parking garage in Emden moved people nationwide in 2012.

The regional court in Aurich found the then 19-year-old perpetrator guilty of murder, attempted sexual abuse and dangerous bodily harm.

It considered the young man to be of limited criminal responsibility because of a severe personality disorder, and he was placed in a closed psychiatric facility.

The presiding judge had said at the verdict that the man was a danger to the public because he had chosen his victims indiscriminately.

A few months before Lena's murder, he had seriously injured a jogger in an attack.

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