Child killer loses human rights claim

A GERMAN child-killer yesterday 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.