Football coach stabbed teenage ref 32 instances after intercourse and dumped physique in forest

On Jan 30, 2024

A married soccer coach who stabbed an adolescent greater than 30 instances after intercourse after which dumped her physique in a forest has been jailed for all times.

The killer, named solely as Tino B, 43, was seized after police found sufferer Kezhia Henke’s stays in distant woodlands in Helmstedt, Lower Saxony State, Germany, final 12 months. Football ref Kezhia, 19, knew accused Tino B via his work as a coach at a membership in Kloetze and had agreed to go to look at a soccer match in Wolfsburg with him.

But when she didn’t return residence, the coach claimed he had dropped her off on the floor in his van, however by no means noticed her once more.

In actuality, Stendal regional court docket heard, he had taken Kezhia to a woodland hideaway and killed her after they’d intercourse.

Forensic proof confirmed she had been stabbed 32 instances within the chest and mid-upper stomach earlier than she died, on April 20, 2023.

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Kezhia Henke, aged 19, from the town of Salzwedel, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, poses in undated photo. She was allegedly murdered by Tino B., aged 42, who was arrested on Thursday, Mar. 23, 2023 — Kezhia Henke was stabbed 32 instances and dumped in a forest
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Image shows the pit where Kezhia Henke, aged 19, from the town of Salzwedel, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, was found, undated photo. She was allegedly murdered by Tino B., aged 42, with more than 30 stab wounds — Her physique was dumped within the woods
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Judges rejected Tino B’s merciless defence that Kezhia had pressured him at knifepoint to have intercourse together with her and that she had been stabbed when he defended himself.

At a listening to on January 29, he was jailed for all times and ordered to pay EUR 40,000 (GBP 34,106) compensation to Kezhia’s household. He was additionally ordered to pay the EUR 6,000 (GBP 5,115) value of her funeral.

Tino B was arrested on March 23, three weeks after {the teenager} initially went lacking. Heinke was reported lacking by her boyfriend and mom, each of which weren’t named throughout the trial.

When she went lacking, Heinke’s pal Sabrina Scheffler advised native media: “Just disappearing, turning off her mobile phone, that doesn’t suit her. She was absolutely reliable and is a regular referee on the football field with us in Kloetze.”