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Guilty ‘Amager Attacker’ plotted rape from jail JENNIFER BULEY Worst known serial-rapist and murderer in modern Danish history was planning a new attack even before his trial’s closing arguments
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RIENDS, family and neighbours described 46-year-old Marcel Lychau Hansen as a completely normal family man – a football coach for over 15 years, a father of two grown sons, a popular ladies’ man, a steady employee at Copenhagen Airport, and a good son. But on Monday morning, following six weeks of testimony and evidence, six jury members and three judges at Copenhagen City Court concluded that
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His premonition failed, however, despite those portrayals, he is also – beyond a shadow of a doubt – the Amager to sow doubt into the jury’s decision. Attacker, the serial rapist and murderer They pronounced him guilty as charged who spooked the Greater Copenhagen on seven counts of rape and two counts area for 23 years, carrying out sadistic of murder, emphasising that the DNA evidence that placed Hansen at several crimes against women. During closing arguments in court of the rapes and one of the murders was last week, Hansen himself said that “the incontrovertible. The chances of the person who did these things must be DNA not being Hansen’s were a million sick in the head, a psychopath who hates to one. A matching handprint and matchwomen.” Yet Hansen maintained his own innocence: that “psychopath” was ing shoe print found at other crime not him – he and the real Amager At- scenes, and the “believable” testimonies tacker just happened to share the exact of more than 50 witnesses, only confirmed Hansen’s guilt, the jury said. same genetic profile. They acquitted him on just one “I am 100 percent innocent,” Hansen told the court. “The person who did these count: the sexual assault and nearthings will strike again, and if I’m sitting strangulation of a 47-year-old woman the north Copenhagen in jail when it happens, people will see ainpersonal Organise meetingneighborhood of Vangede in 2007. In that case, the that it wasn’t me,” he concluded weirdly.
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odds of the DNA evidence not being Hansen’s were merely 2,200 to one. All the seats were removed from the courtroom on Monday to accommodate the standing-room-only crowd. Some of Hansen’s victims and their family members were among that crowd when the court read its decision. Many cried and hugged each other as the guilty verdicts were read out. The verdicts appeared to put an end to one of Denmark’s most extraordinary criminal cases ever and the country’s worst known serial rapist and murderer. But within hours of the decision, the case took an unexpected, stranger-thanfiction turn. Police announced on Monday
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