BILD Hussein Khavari, 17, raped and drowned 19-year-old Maria Ladenburger in October last year

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Hussein Khavari, 17, raped and drowned 19-year-old Maria Ladenburger in October last year and his DNA found at the crime scene. It has emerged that he was given a ten-year sentence in Corfu for attempting to kill a 20-year-old woman he hurled off a cliff face after following her as she walked home. Germany's interior ministry is demanding answers from Greece.

"Requests for a search for this individual after he left Greece do not exist," said a spokesman. "Also a search of the Interpol database comes up negative."

Had the Greeks written an international warrant for him we would he even noticed André Schulz - Association of German Criminal Detectivesm

That meant Khavari could not be identified as a wanted criminal when he applied for asylum in Germany on November 12 last year at a police station in Freiburg: the city where he would stalk and murder medical student Miss Ladenburger. If the Greeks had entered his fingerprints into Eurodac – the European fingerprint database – he would have been denied entry and she would still be alive. André Schulz, head of the Association of German Criminal Detectivesm, said: "Had the Greeks written an international warrant for him we would he even noticed."

PH Khavari was given a ten-year sentence in Corfu for attempting to kill a 20-year-old woman in Corfu

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It was in May 2013 that Afghanistan-born Khavari was arrested because he pushed the young woman 25 feet down a cliff face causing her severe injuries. A juvenile court sentenced him to ten years in prison for attempted murder. Eftyxis Fytrakis, the secretary general of the Greek Ministry of Justice, told Germany's Bild: "He was sent to a prison in the city of Volos. His behaviour was excellent. He attended the school in the 6th and 7th grade and for 581 days performed volunteer work. "Hussein was released after 28 months because of good behaviour. His release was legitimate and fully in compliance with the law. In Germany he would have had to serve at least 40 months." After his release he was supposed to report to Greek police once a month but took the opportunity to leave the country and head to Germany. According to authorities in Greece he was listed as a missing person in December last year. Miss Ladenburger, the daughter of a senior official with the European Commission in Brussels, ironically worked as a helper in asylum homes in Freiburg.

FACEBOOK Maria Ladenburger worked as a helper in asylum homes in Freiburg