Cologne Central Station Search ends: Mentally ill prisoner apprehended in Cologne

COLOGNE · A mentally ill prisoner who had not returned from his leave on Sunday, was apprehended by police at Cologne Central Station. The 67-year-old, convicted of manslaughter, was taken into custody without offering resistance.

The mentally ill prisoner, who had not returned from a leave in Cologne on Sunday afternoon, was arrested on Thursday afternoon at Cologne Central Station. According to federal police, an attentive traveller had recognized the 67-year-old at about 2:15 p.m. and contacted them. The man was arrested in Regionalexpress train 9 at Cologne Central Station. He offered no resistance. "A fingerprint scan confirmed the identity of the violent offender for whom we had been searching," the police reported.

Police returned the 67-year-old to the LVR clinic where he had been incarcerated. After he didn’t return to the facility following a temporary leave, police put out a photo of the man, asking for help from the public to find him. Several leads came in from Bonn and the region. The man comes from Bonn. In 1998, he kicked his 78-year-old neighbor to death while under the influence of alcohol in Bad Godesberg. As early as 2014, the question was raised by the Bonn judiciary about why the man, who was considered aggressive and mentally deficient, had even been granted a temporary release.

(Orig. text: ga.de; Translation: ck)

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