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A German nurse believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the country's post-war history is handed a life sentence for murdering 85 patients in his care. The 42-year-old murdered patients selected at random with lethal injections between 2000 and 2005, when he was caught in the act. IMAGES
French serial killer Michel Fourniret's widow, Monique Olivier, arrives in the courtroom's dock to stand trial for complicity in the abduction and murder of little girl and two young women in northern France. Spanning three decades, the murders included a 9 year old girl on her way back from school, a mentally disabled 18 year old and a 20 year olf British woman whose body was found in a river in 1990. Fourniret, known as the "ogre of the Ardennes", was charged with abduction, rape and murder in the cases but died in 2021, aged 79, before he could be brought to trial. IMAGES
Kenyan police say a serial killer suspect who escaped from a Nairobi police station may have been "aided by insiders". A manhunt has been launched to rearrest the escapees, including the serial killer suspect Collins Jumaisi, Acting Inspector General of Kenya's Police, Gilbert Masengeli said from outside from outside the police station in the Kenyan capital's Gigiri district where the escape occured earlier on Tuesday. SOUNDBITE
Kenyan investigators gather at a police station in the capital Nairobi where earlier a man who police say confessed to murdering 42 women escaped from a police cell, along with a dozen other detainees. Collins Jumaisi, 33, described by police as a "vampire, a psychopath", was arrested last month after the horrific discovery of mutilated bodies in a garbage dump in a slum in the Kenyan capital. IMAGES
Images at the start of the trial against Bjorn Hoecke, head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Thuringia, who appears in court for publicly using a banned Nazi slogan. He stands accused of twice using the phrase "Alles fuer Deutschland" ("Everything for Germany"), once a motto of the so-called Sturmabteilung paramilitary group that played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power. IMAGES