Overview

• He left Sehnde prison after completing a seven-year term for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old in Portugal, departing in a car driven by his lawyer.
• Post-release controls include an electronic ankle tag, passport cancellation, a fixed-address requirement, and regular check-ins, according to his lawyer and German media reports.
• He remains the principal suspect publicly named by German prosecutors in 2020, yet he has not been charged and continues to deny involvement.
• British, German and Portuguese police say their joint investigation continues, following June searches in the Algarve with no announced breakthroughs.
• German prosecutor Christian Wolters has described him as dangerous, and he still faces an October 27 court date in Oldenburg over an alleged insult of a prison employee.