Less than two years since the torso of a Portuguese woman was found floating in a German canal (click here), her callous murderer has been sentenced to life in jail.
But the dismal truth is that Mongolian Dovchin D (there appears to be no confirmation of the 39-year-old’s full name, either in the Portuguese or German press) could be out in as little as 15 years.
Portuguese tabloid Correio da Manhã stresses that 15 years is the absolute minimum he will have to spend behind bars, while Germany’s Epoch Times says “early release is impossible”.
Still, the sentence means the father-of-one could be free once again when he is 50.
Leipzig regional court heard how Dovchin “murdered two women, for absolutely vain reasons, inflicting terrible pain on their families”.
After strangling 43-year-old Lídia Maria da Cruz, he used a saw and an angle-grinder to dismember her body, before tieing various parts to stones and the frame of a bicycle which he then threw into the Ester river.
Dovchin also pleaded guilty to the murder of a 40-year-old German woman, who body parts were “disposed of in the trash or in the toilet” reports Germany’s RTLNext website.
natasha.donn@algarveresident.com
