A 25 year-old woman and a 26 year-old man were sentenced to life in prison in a German court on Thursday for the murder of the woman’s lookalike in a scheme to faker her death.
According to the court, the Iraqi-German woman, named only as Shahraban K, wanted to go into hiding due to family conflicts and fake her own death. She went onto social media to search for a doppelganger and arranged to meet a 23 year-old woman, whom she then killed with the help of an acquaintance.
The trial lasted 11 months and more than 50 days of hearings were needed. The court ruled the crime to be particularly serious, which makes it unlikely that the sentence will be suspended after 15 years — a common occurence in Germany.
Handing down the sentence on Thursday, the presiding judge in the city of Ingolstadt described the murder as a “disturbing act”.
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Once they had picked her up, the pair brought the victim to a wooded area and stabbed her 56 times.
The victim’s body was then placed in Shahraban K’s car, where her parents discovered it and thought it was their daughter’s. But after an investigation, the corpse’s true identity was discovered.
According to German media reports, Shahraban K originated from a Yazidi community in northern Iraq and may have been motivated to fake her own death after her marriage broke down.
She has also been convicted of attempted incitement to murder. The court found that she had hired a hitman to kill her brother-in-law, although the murder did not end up taking place.
These must have been some pretty intense “family conflicts”
I wonder what they had planned afterwards, had people believe it. It’s really hard to start a new life without any prior registration or I’d.
Shame for the doppelganger that died such a senseless death
Honestly just switch places with the dead person, I hope this doesn’t get me added to some list lol.
It feels like this is the shabby real world version of a Hitchcock film but in the film you are left unsure at the end you realise the doppelganger killed the murderer in the woods and replaced them instead.
This is just wow
What a psycho bitch
