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Lady Justice can be seen on a window at the entrance to the Higher Regional Court.
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In the trial surrounding the so-called Cologne carnival murder of a young woman, the district court sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment on Friday.
“We are convinced that you committed the murder 36 years ago,” said the presiding judge.
Cologne - According to the verdict, the 57-year-old killed the victim in the old town on the night of Carnival Sunday in 1988.
This was proven, among other things, by DNA traces that were found on the body.
The defense had pleaded for acquittal.
The defendant denied the crime in the trial.
The investigators got on the trail of the defendant through a tip from a viewer after the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY...unsolved”, in which the “cold case” was presented.
dpa