A paedophile monster who killed his 14-year-old victim after blackmailing her into having sex with him has been sentenced to life behind bars.

Security guard Jan-Heiko Pflur, 30, had spent months grooming victim Ayleen Ambs online through games of Fortnite and Snapchat messages, the court heard.

Pfur tricked her into sending him nude pictures and then said he would show them to her family if she did not agree to meet him in his car.

He drove the terrified schoolgirl to woodlands in Hesse in July last year, where he tried to rape her on a park bench.

Then he strangled her and drove 40 kilometres with her body to dump it in Teufelssee Lake, the court in Giessen, Hesse State, heard.

Shocked judges at Geissen Regional Court had been told how evil Pfur had tried to snare other children after killing Ayleen.

Pfur admited charges of murder, attempted rape resulting in death, abduction of a minor, obtaining child pornography and driving without a licence.

And at a hearing on 28th September judges jailed evil Pfur for life.

A preventive detention has also been ordered, which means he will never be released from prison.

Judges ruled that Pflur killed the victim “exclusively for sexual motivation”.

Presiding judge Regine Enderts-Kunze said: “Because Ayleen didn’t want to have sex with him, she had to die.”

Judges noted that sick Pfur showed no remorse and even continued trying to snare other victims.

The court had been told that after killing Ayleen he sent a masturbation video to another child.

Judge Enders-Kunze said: “Society and every single girl must be protected from the defendant.

“He doesn’t care about rules, norms and values. He has a tendency to commit serious crimes.”

“This behaviour is frightening.”

Ayleen was described as a “nice, shy, and reserved girl” by chief criminal investigator Arno Englen.

The court heard how two months after the gruesome murder, Pflur confessed to killing her during a three-hour interrogation by police.

Forensic examination of Pflur’s mobile phone revealed he had met his victim on Snapchat at the end of April 2022 and remained in close contact with her.

Pfur has already been convicted of an attempted sexual offence when he tried to rape an 11-year-old while he was 14 years old, according to local media.

He spent ten years in a correctional facility.

Until early last year, he was in a programme for recidivist sex offenders and under supervision but it expired in January 2022, shortly before he met Ayleen.

Prosecutor Thomas Hauburger told the court at a hearing on 25th September: “The man is charged with, among other things, murder, attempted rape resulting in death and coercion.

“The characteristics of murder include killing to satisfy sexual desire or to cover up a sexual crime.”

Hauburger also said that he had never seen someone “so indifferent and ignorant” after taking someone’s life.