Germany doppelganger homicide: Iraqi girl kills ‘lookalike’ to pretend her personal loss of life

In a horrific incident, Shahraban Ok, a 23-year-old German girl of Iraqi origin has been accused of mercilessly killing her doppelganger in an try to pretend her personal loss of life. As per particulars disclosed by the German authorities on Monday (January 30), the accused took the help of her boyfriend Sheqir Ok to execute the heinous crime within the month of August final yr.

Sharaban Ok and her good friend Sheqir Ok, accused of aiding within the plot, have been arrested on August 19, 2022, however your complete scope of the investigation and their alleged intentions weren’t made public by officers till Monday this week.

Veronika Grieser of the Ingolstadt state prosecutor’s workplace was quoted by The Guardian as saying on Monday, “Investigations have led us to assume that the accused wanted to go into hiding because of a family dispute and fake her own death to that effect.”

According to reviews, within the week earlier than the homicide, the accused, who lived in Munich in Germany, contacted a number of girls who resembled her and have been working on social media websites underneath quite a few aliases on Instagram. The accused then narrowed down on the victim- a cosmetics blogger and an Algerian citizen Khadidja O (23), who lived about 100 miles away.

According to authorities, Shahraban Ok and her boyfriend, Sheqir Ok approached Khadidja O and lured her by providing her beauty merchandise. Khadidja O agreed to fulfill the duo. The accused, on the day of the homicide, went to Khadidja’s home to select her up.

On their method again, when the automotive reached a bit of woodland between Heilbronn and Ingolstadt, the accused duo reportedly drew up an excuse for the Algerian girl to step exterior the automobile. As quickly as she obtained down, the accused brutally stabbed the sufferer round 50 instances, leaving her face utterly disfigured.

Reportedly, earlier than going to fulfill the sufferer, accused Shahraban had instructed her husband that she was going to see her ex-husband. However, when Shahraban didn’t return, her mother and father started trying to find her in Ingolstadt, a metropolis in Bavaria, Germany. Upon looking, they got here throughout her Mercedes automotive close to the banks of the well-known Danube river.

As they approached the automotive, they noticed the physique of a dark-haired younger girl brutally murdered within the again seat of the automotive, they usually thought it was their daughter.

According to police, a number of knives have been discovered close to the automotive, which was reportedly found not removed from Shahraban’s boyfriend Sheqir Ok’s flat.

Initially, because of the uncanny resemblance between the deceased and the accused, the latter’s relations recognized the physique. However, an post-mortem report that got here within the subsequent day and subsequent DNA reviews proved that the physique was truly Khadidja O, an Algerian magnificence blogger from Heilbronn within the neighbouring state of Baden-Württemberg.

The German police arrested Shahraban Ok and Sheqir Ok for the brutal homicide.

“The crime weapon has not been found, but the evidence is overwhelming,” a police spokesperson, Andreas Aichele, instructed the tabloid Bild. “The victim was killed with over 50 thrusts of the knife, the face completely disfigured.”