Man gets life for stabbing woman to death in court

A RUSSIAN-BORN German man was sentenced to life behind bars yesterday for the brutal murder of a pregnant headscarved Egyptian woman, a crime that sparked outrage in the Muslim world.

Man gets life for stabbing woman to death in court

Alex Wiens, 28, much of his face covered by a hooded top, sat motionless as the court in the eastern German city of Dresden found him guilty of murdering Marwa El-Sherbini, dubbed the “veil martyr”.

On July 1, in the same courthouse, Wiens had plunged a seven-inch kitchen knife at least 16 times into Sherbini, 31, who was three months pregnant at the time with her second child.

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