CHILD-KILLER LOSES HUMAN RIGHTS BID
Posted on 30 June 2008 by Jack
A German child-killer has lost his claim that police violated his human rights by threatening him with violence to discover his victim’s body.
Magnus Gaefgen, 33, is serving life for the abduction and murder of the 11-year-old boy in Frankfurt in September 2002.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that while Gaefgen experienced what could be described as inhumane treatment during the investigation, when an officer was ordered to threaten him with violence to get him to say where the boy’s body was, German courts had already addressed the issue.
The court ruled that Gaefgen can no longer claim victim status. It also said his rights were not violated during the trial, because no evidence gained as a result of the threat was used.
German courts had excluded such evidence and based their conviction on another confession by Gaefgen and other evidence. The European court dismissed Gaefgen’s complaint by a vote of 6-1.
Gaefgen’s lawyer said he would consider appealing against the judgment.
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June 30th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Darn good thing this case can’t be transferred to Canada. All the police would be on trial and this creep would have sued and been awarded a couple of million for his ’suffering’.