Justice authorities in western Germany are facing a barrage of criticism after a convicted rapist and murderer killed his girlfriend during a conjugal visit at a prison on Sunday.
Klaus-Dieter H., 50, who had been in jail for 19 years for raping and beating to death a nine-year-old girl, had been regularly allowed to have unsupervised meetings in jail with a 46-year-old single mother he had got to know five years ago. She had written him letters in the jail in Remscheid, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and they had fallen in love.
Soon after they met, they applied for permission to have conjugal visits in what prisoners called the “love cell,” and received permission. “The two wanted to stay together after his release, that’s why we allowed the visits without supervision — so that the relationship would have a chance,” prison director Katja Grafweg told a news conference.
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