A woman in Berlin was tortured and killed by a couple she met on the internet during a sex game and her body dumped in a rubbish container, investigators have said.
The couple aged, a man named by police as Taifun S., who is 36, and his 27-year-old girlfriend Jasmin P., were arrested at the German capital’s Schönefeld airport as they tried to flee to Turkey.
According to investigators, the 55-year-old woman, named as Marianne M., met the suspects on a forum for people with specialist sexual interests.
The 55-year-old woman’s body was found on this street in the Wedding district of Berlin
The man and woman, suspected of carrying out the murder, were arrested a Berlin airport trying to flee to Turkey
After she was tortured for a ‘long time’ in a specially rented apartment before being killed and her body dragged down four flights of stairs, Bild reported.
A passer-by found her corpse wrapped in a grey blanket, 37 metres away from the apartment by a pile of rubbish on the street at 8.30 am on December 23, in the Wedding district of Berlin.
An autopsy determined she had been murdered and Berlin police say the suspects were arrested just before 1pm on December 29 at the airport on suspicion of killing her.
According to Bild, the male suspect’s previous offences include drug trafficking, violence, weapons offences and theft.
The female suspect has convictions for threats, insults, resistance arrest and theft, the paper said.