Asylum seeker from who raped and murdered EU official’s daughter is jailed for life in Germany

A refugee who raped and murdered the daughter of a top EU official has been jailed for life in Germany.

Hussein Khavari was told he will serve an indeterminate sentence because of the brutality of his crime.

Life in Germany usually means no more than 15 years, but the court said he must be confined longer than this if necessary.

The killing of Maria Ladenburger, 19, crystallised anger against refugees in Germany and Angela Merkel.

It also helped boost the popularity of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the general election last year.

Self-pitying Khavari was linked to the murder through his DNA but remained silent after his arrest.

He claimed to be 17 at the time of the slaughter but testing on his teeth showed him to be at least 22.

On day one of his trial at Freiburg District Court he recalled how he smoked hash the night he ambushed Maria in October 2016.

He then raped her and drowned her in the knee-deep water of a nearby river.

The brute said the night of the killing he was so drunk he was thrown out of a bar and left alone by his friends in town.

He claims he accidentally came across Maria who shouted out as she fell from her bicycle.

Khavari said he then pressed her mouth shut and choked her with a scarf before putting her unconscious into the water.

“When I saw how pretty she was, I wanted to have sex with her,” he said, but claims he was too drunk.

He broke down in court and added: “I want to apologise to the family of Maria”.

Reading from a statement he went on: “I beg your pardon. I want to apologize to the family of Maria. I wish I could undo it.

“What I have done, I am sad for from the bottom of my heart.”

He said he dreams of what he did every day as he wiped tears from his face.

“I live with the agony of what I did and this torment destroys my life by and by,” he added.

He claims he dragged her into the river “because I wanted to wash her blood from me.”

Prosecutors dispute his account of the murder and say he planned it beforehand.

And a psychiatric expert said his remorse was fake.

The expert warned of a “high risk” of him re-offfending and said he has a “great and persistent readiness for violence.”

He added there was “an interest in aggressive sexual practices and a hostile attitude towards women.

“Moreover, he does not show remorse and compassion to the suffering of other people.”

It was revealed after his arrest that he had been arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted murder in Corfu in 2013 before coming to Germany seeking refuge in 2015.

It remains unclear why Greece let him out of jail.

German authorities knew nothing of his past and so let him into the country as a registered asylum seeker.

His victim, whose father is a senior legal adviser to the European Commission in Brussels, worked in her spare time in Freiburg, helping migrants in various shelters and homes.

The killing sparked frenzied new waves of hatred and fear of refugees.

Even the leader of the country’s police union said Maria’s death would have been prevented had the open door asylum-seeker policy of Chancellor Merkel had been less lax than it was.

The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party piggybacked on the killer’s arrest to highlight what it says are the dangers of unregulated immigration.

It calls Maria a “victim of Merkel’s welcome culture”.

Source: The Sun