Turkish child killer found hanged in prison

A man convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old German girl has been found dead in prison, according to Turkey’s state-run news agency.

Anatolia news agency says 39-year-old Bulent Gulbay was found hanged from the bars of his prison cell in the central town of Karaman.

The agency says prison guards found Gulbay’s body this morning.

His body was sent for a routine post-mortem examination.

Gulbay had been transferred to the Karaman prison after being attacked by inmates in another jail soon after his 2004 arrest.

He was convicted in 2006 of raping and killing Lisa Eder while she was on holiday with her family in the resort town of Alanya in October 2004.