National police headquarters’ investigators, in cooperation with the British authorities, have arrested a convicted sex offender ( aged 37) in the United Kingdom.
The Syrian Hakam A. from Neunkirchen-Wiebelskirchen had been sentenced to eight years in prison for rape and multiple sexual abuse of a child in March 2022. His victim, a girl, was ten years old at the time of the first offences.
He appealed against the sentence, initially remained at large and eventually went into hiding.
On November 10, he was finally caught in the UK.
Whether he will serve his sentence in the UK or Germany will be decided in the next few weeks. The investigations are ongoing.