On Monday a Turkish asylum seeker went on trial over the rape and attempted murder of a jogger in Munich’s English Garden park in late 2016.
On a cold evening in December 2016, a 45-year-old woman was jogging through a remote part of the English Garden when she was attacked from behind.
According to prosecutors, her attacker grabbed her headband, pulled it down around her neck and strangled her with it. She screamed out for help but nobody responded.
The man then tightened the headband around her throat until she began to bleed. She collapsed in unconsciousness, but the man continued to strangle her for another 30 seconds, seemingly indifferent to the fact that she was about to die.
He then raped her and left her body in a bush.
Prosecutors have charged 28-year-old Emrah T. with the woman’s rape and attempted murder.
They argue that he believed his victim would die, either through the fact she had been strangled or because he had left her face down on the ground in temperatures of 2C.
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