Iraqi man gets life in jail for rape, murder of Jewish teen in Germany

A failed Iraqi asylum seeker was handed life in prison for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old German girl.

Ali Bashar, had admitted in court in Wiesbaden that he strangled Susanna Feldman on May the 23rd 2018, but claimed he did not know how it happened.

Her body was found two weeks later, after he had returned to northern Iraq.

The killing prompted outrage in Germany and led chancellor Angela Merkel to call for faster deportation of failed asylum seekers in the country.

Bashar was sentenced on Wednesday amid tight security at the court in Wiesbaden, the city where the murder took place.

He is unlikely to be granted parole after 15 years, as his crime was deemed by the judge to be of exceptional severity.