A paedophile monster who killed his 14-year-old victim after blackmailing her into having sex with him is facing life behind bars in Germany.
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.
Pfur admits charges of murder, attempted rape resulting in death, abduction of a minor, obtaining child pornography and driving without a licence.
Prosecutors told judges at the hearing on 25th September that they will be pressing for a life sentence.
Victim 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 having killed Ayleen 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 until he killed 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 10 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: “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 has never seen someone “so indifferent and ignorant” after taking someone’s life.
The representative of Ayleen’s parents, who appear as joint plaintiffs also pleaded for life sentence and preventive detention.
The trial is ongoing.
