The suspect in the murder of 13-year-old Lisa T. from Berlin has died. The Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that the 22-year-old died in hospital on Wednesday morning. He was found on Sunday alongside the body of the girl in an uninhabited detached house in Brandenburg. According to investigators, he had previously inflicted serious injuries on himself, allegedly in an attempted suicide.
Lisa T. had been the subject of a search operation lasting several days. Even before her body and the suspect were found in a district of Bad Freienwalde, investigators had already suspected that a crime had taken place.
According to the latest findings, the 22-year-old is believed to have killed T. She was presumably a random victim. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, there is no evidence of any prior contact between the two.
The suspect, who has now died, had a previous conviction for possessing child pornography. According to the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office, a district court in Bavaria had sentenced him to one year of probation for the offence. The sentence became legally binding last week. Investigators reportedly found more than 900 files of this nature on the man’s mobile phone.
T. had been missing since Tuesday of the previous week after disappearing on her way to school. On Sunday, police officers found the girl dead and the seriously injured suspect in a district of Bad Freienwalde. According to the police, officers had been investigating suspicions that someone had gained unauthorised access to the unused house.
The 22-year-old was in a life-threatening condition and was taken to hospital under police guard. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, a post-mortem examination of T. has so far failed to establish a clear cause of death. Further examinations are therefore expected to follow.
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