Denmark’s Western High Court has sentenced a 20-year-old man to 12 years in prison for raping and killing a 13-year-old girl in 2024.

Teen killer avoids preventive detention as high court upholds 12-year term

Denmark’s Western High Court on Tuesday delivered its verdict in the appeal of the then 17-year-old who raped and killed a 13-year-old girl in Hjallerup. Foto: Finn Frandsen
Denmark’s Western High Court on Tuesday delivered its verdict in the appeal of the then 17-year-old who raped and killed a 13-year-old girl in Hjallerup. Foto: Finn Frandsen
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There was a large turnout in the courtroom on Tuesday, when the Western High Court heard the appeal in the case against a now 20-year-old man who in July last year was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the murder and rape of a 13-year-old girl.

The killing took place on March 11, 2024, at the district heating plant in Hjallerup, where the 13-year-old girl and Elias Shegow, then 17, had arranged to meet after she had broken up with him shortly beforehand.

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