Trial starts over killing of Chinese student
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A GERMAN couple went on trial yesterday accused of brutally raping and killing a Chinese student in eastern Germany.
The 21-year-old defendants are alleged to have lured the 25-year-old architecture student, who had gone jogging in the city of Dessau, to an empty apartment in May this year.
The pair, called Sebastian F. and Xenia I. in local media reports, then allegedly raped the woman repeatedly, leaving her with such severe injuries they assumed she would die in the flat, prosecutors said.
When the couple returned hours later and found the victim, identified in media reports as Li Yangjie, still alive, they carried the severely wounded woman away and abandoned her in underbrush, it is claimed.
After friends in Germany and China alerted authorities that she was missing, police organized a search for the woman, who was from central China’s Henan Province. Her body was found two days later.
An autopsy found she had suffered blows to the head, torso and extremities.
Sebastian F. is also accused of two further rapes committed in the summer of 2013 in Dessau.
Yesterday’s hearing ended after an hour, during which prosecutors read out the charges, court spokesman Frank Straube said.
“The two defendants are not addressing the accusations against them for the time being,” he said.
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