Man sentenced to life in prison for rape and murder of Chinese student

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The rapist and murderer of Li Yangjie, an overseas Chinese student in Germany, has been sentenced to life imprisonment, and his accomplice received a youth penalty of five years and six months for sexual coercion,

Li, a 25-year-old Chinese architecture student at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, left her home to go jogging as usual on May 11, 2016 but didn’t come back. Two days after her disappearance, she was found dead within 100 meters of the student accommodation where she lived in Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt.

The German couple was accused of raping and killing Li in a crime that caused outrage in both countries.