Giessen Regional Court sentences Ayleen’s murderer to life imprisonment hessenschau.de

In the trial surrounding the violent death of 14-year-old student Ayleen, the defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Gießen regional court for murder. The judges also determined the particular gravity of the guilt and ordered subsequent preventive detention.

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Around a year and a half after the violent death of 14-year-old Ayleen, the Giessen regional court sentenced Jan P. to life imprisonment for murder and attempted rape.

On Thursday, the jury also determined the particular gravity of the guilt and ordered that P. be placed in preventive detention after his imprisonment. This means it is almost impossible for him to be released early after 15 years.

Sexual motive proven

In the court’s opinion, no questions remained unanswered about Jan P.’s sexual motives. These result from the chat messages. The girl had to die because she did not want to have sexual intercourse with P., said presiding judge Regine Enders-Kunze. He had “maximum interest” in having sex with Ayleen and announced this several times in voice messages the day before their meeting.

The court also had no questions left about Ayleen’s position: “It was just as clear as his goal to have sexual intercourse with her that Ayleen didn’t want that.” She did not want any real contact with the defendant at all, that is clear from her messages to him.

It is also impossible that a 14-year-old girl, 400 kilometers from home, without a cell phone and completely alone on a dirt road, could have acted in such a confidently insulting, provocative or rebellious manner as the defendant claimed in his defense: “That is simply unimaginable. ” This protective claim made by P. vanishes into thin air. Ayleen was completely at the mercy of this man.

Only two scenarios are conceivable

From the court’s perspective, there can only be two conceivable crime scenarios that would both meet the criteria for murder: Either P. pushed Ayleen onto the park bench on the dirt road near Langgöns because he wanted to have sex with her and choked her in the process. Then it would have been a case of killing to satisfy the sexual drive.

Or he wanted to cover up the attempted or completed sexual intercourse and that’s why he killed her. The act would therefore fulfill the murder characteristic of concealment.

Judge: “Started the next day in a good mood”

The judge also spoke about the “disposal of the body.” There’s no other way to describe it, she said. The defendant showed no sense of guilt, no remorse, not even fright. On the contrary, just a few hours later, he fell back into his chat mode and directly contacted other girls.

P. was “again maximally focused on satisfying his own needs” and even “started the next day in a good mood.” Such behavior is “extraordinary, in the most negative sense.” The behavior played a decisive role in the question of the particular severity of the guilt and the subsequent preventive detention after imprisonment.

Enders-Kunze said: “Yes, security administration must be ordered. Yes, society and every single girl must be protected from the accused.” She referred to the psychological report, according to which he had a strong tendency to do something like that again as soon as he was released.

According to the judge, P. has a complex antisocial personality disorder with psychopathic traits. He is characterized by a blatant indifference to all rules of coexistence and to all consequences. “Educational measures don’t reach him.”

However, this personality disorder is not so pronounced in his case that it has an impact on his culpability. “He could behave differently, but he doesn’t want to.”

Last words from the judge to the mother

Addressing Ayleen’s mother, who was present as a co-plaintiff, the judge said at the end of her hour-long statement: “Questions remain unanswered. It is regrettable that we were unable to clarify this further.” It became clear that the family also blamed itself. She hopes that the family realizes “that there are people and behaviors that cannot be predicted and cannot be prevented.”

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After the trial, which lasted around three and a half months, the judges also found Jan P. guilty of kidnapping minors, driving without a license, coercion and obtaining child pornography.

Prosecutor: Horrifying insights into the defendant’s soul

Senior public prosecutor Thomas Hauburger said afterwards that the case had a whole series of peculiarities, starting with the fact that it also involved the phenomenon of cybergrooming, “which was fatal here.”

The procedure also shows how heavily investigative authorities rely on access to cell data and IP addresses. In addition, during the trial we were given “terrifying insights into the soul of a defendant,” said Hauburger. “I’ve never experienced anything like this before.”

After the verdict was announced, defense attorney Henner Maaß said: It was clear to him when he took over the case that the chances of an acquittal were slim. Nevertheless, the defense announced that it would appeal to have the verdict checked for procedural or legal errors.

Body found a year ago in Central Hesse

P. had met the student from near Freiburg via social networks a few months before the crime and exchanged thousands of messages, some of them highly sexualized, with her. P. then put Ayleen under increasing pressure over time and threatened her.

On July 21, 2022, he finally picked up Ayleen in his car in her home village of Gottenheim, drove her to a forest near Langgöns-Cleeberg (Gießen) and strangled her. A good week later, her body was found in Teufelsee near Reichelsheim (Wetterau).

The evidence used, among other things, was detailed movement profiles from the evaluation of the two’s smartphones. Ayleen’s clothing was also found in P’s apartment. During the investigation, P. first spoke of an accident, then of an emotional act.