An Afghan man who claimed he was 17 years old to be granted asylum in Germany where he later raped and killed an EU official’s daughter is 33 years old, a court heard.

Hussein Khavari ambushed 19-year-old medical student Maria Ladenburger in Freiberg in October last year before raping her and drowning her in a river.
Khavari had applied for asylum as an ‘unaccompanied minor’ when the attack took place, but his father has told German authorities that he is much older.
Last month, dental checks found with ‘near certainty’ that Khavari is aged between 22 and 29 years old.
But his father, who lives in Iran, informed the court via telephone that his son is born in January 1984, making him nearly 34 years old, Welt reports.
This comes after an analysis of his canine tooth by research scientist Ursula Wittwer-Backofen, presented to the court last month, found him to be nearly ten years older than his claim of 17.

The upper right canine tooth had been removed eight months before Khavari attacked the teenager.
Khavari had kept the tooth as some sort of souvenir and it was later seized by police in Freiburg, southern Germany, where he has been standing trial for the past three months for the crime.
Mrs. Wittwer-Backofen said it has been established with 99.7 percent probability that his true age is between 22.05 and 29.55 years, but that she was certain he was 25.
This means when he is sentenced for Maria’s murder he can expert no leniency for his age but a mandatory life sentence.
He had earlier testified that on the night of the killing he was so drunk he was ejected from a bar and left alone by his friends in town.
He claims he accidentally came across Maria who shouted out as she fell from her bicycle.
He said he pressed her mouth shut then choked her with a scarf and put her unconscious into the water.

source: dailymail.co.uk