{"id":239875,"date":"2023-10-30T20:24:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T20:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=239875"},"modified":"2023-10-30T20:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T20:24:20","slug":"brit-70-is-extradited-to-germany-over-brutal-murder-of-a-pensioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/brit-70-is-extradited-to-germany-over-brutal-murder-of-a-pensioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit, 70, is extradited to Germany over brutal murder of a pensioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Brit, 70, is extradited to Germany over brutal murder of a pensioner who was found bludgeoned to death in a bath in 1979<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>A 69-year-old man was found dead in a bathtub on 2 January\u00a01979<\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Indictment against unnamed Brit, aged 70, was filed at the state court in Munich<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Brit has been extradited to Germany\u00a0and charged with the murder of a man nearly 45 years ago, according to German officials.<\/p>\n<p>A 69-year-old man was last seen on 30 December 1978, in the company of a younger man, according to police investigator Stephan Beer.<\/p>\n<p>On 2 January 1979, he was found dead in a bathtub after he failed to respond to calls from relatives.<\/p>\n<p>A post-mortem examination found that he died following at least 10 blows to the head, which is believed to have been inflicted with a 1kg (2.2lb) bronze pestle that was found at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Three fingerprints were also found, which could not be attributed to anyone at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Cash and keys were stolen from the property along with a ring, which was found around a week later on a building site at Munich&#8217;s main station.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators were unable to find a suspect at the time, although they offered a reward and issued an identikit picture of the man&#8217;s companion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/18\/77186585-12689795-image-a-1_1698691272896.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An indictment against an unnamed Briton, now aged 70, was filed at the state court in Munich, prosecutor Juliane Grotz said. Pictured: Stock image of Munich<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/19\/77188283-12689795-image-a-21_1698694360535.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Brit\u00a0 was arrested in late March and extradited in early April to the Bavarian city where he has been in custody since. Pictured: A stock image of Munich\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An indictment against an unnamed Briton, now aged 70, was filed at the state court in Munich, prosecutor Juliane Grotz said.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in late March and extradited in early April to the Bavarian city where he has been in custody since.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, evidence found at the scene was examined for DNA and in 2018, officials looked at their files again and sought to find a match with the fingerprints &#8211; at first unsuccessfully.<\/p>\n<p>But in November 2021, they were informed of a match with a person living in England. In January, German prosecutors sought an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Beer said that the suspect has not commented on the case against him but told an officer that he had been in Munich in 1978 during his transfer to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he does not have a previous police record in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Beer said: &#8216;Files are not closed here if we think we still have promising investigations. That was the case here.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>German officials have not identified the victim or the suspect, in accordance with local privacy rules.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12689795\/Brit-extradited-Germany-brutal-murder-pensioner-bludgeoned-death-bath.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brit, 70, is extradited to Germany over brutal murder of a pensioner who was found bludgeoned to death in a bath in 1979 A 69-year-old man was found dead in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brit, 70, is extradited to Germany over brutal murder of a pensioner - lovemainstream.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/brit-70-is-extradited-to-germany-over-brutal-murder-of-a-pensioner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brit, 70, is extradited to Germany over brutal murder of a pensioner - 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