Freiburg student murder case defendant could be much older than he says: court
A German court says new evidence suggests a man accused of raping and killing a Freiburg student last year may have blatantly lied about his age. The information could affect the severity of his punishment.
A court in the southern German city of Freiburg said on Friday that a refugee, Hussein K., who is being tried for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old female student in October last year, has possibly grossly understated his age — and lied about his own father's death.
Hussein K. has said that his father had been killed in Afghanistan while fighting the Taliban — a claim now belied by the fact that German authorities managed to contact the latter in Iran using a telephone number stored in the confiscated cellphone belonging to the accused.
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