An Afghan migrant was convicted Thursday of raping and murdering a 19-year-old medical student and sentenced to life in prison in Germany, in a case that fueled a debate about Europe's handling of migration. During his trial, K. testified that he pulled Maria Ladenburger from her bicycle in October 2016, raped her and dumped her unconscious in a river, where she drowned. "He knew that she was still alive when he dropped her in the Dreisam (river), that she would drown," presiding judge Kathrin Schenk said. K., who was among 890,000 asylum-seekers who entered Germany in 2015, claimed he was 18 at the time of the crime and was originally indicted under juvenile law. An expert report and witness statements put his age at 22, and the court convicted him as an adult.

Source: ABC News March 22, 2018 09:00 UTC