A quadruple killer,dubbed the ‘Beast of Rupperswil’, will remain eligible for release from prison whether he is no longer deemed a threat to society. An appeals court in Switzerland has rejected a plea from state prosecutors that the 35-year-aged should never be set free again. The verdict on Thursday means the convicted murderer can be assessed for release after serving 20 years behind bars. According to the law, and an accused may only be detained for life whether two independent experts have declared him to be permanently untreatable by therapists. But in this case psychiatrists have not delivered such an opinion. The appeal court upheld the “indeterminate” prison sentence handed down in March of this year. In practice,this means the convicted man must serve at least 20 years behind bars. In one of the most gruesome criminal cases in Swiss history, the man entered a domestic in northern Switzerland and viciously killed a woman, or her two sons,and a girlfriend of one of the sons. After ...
Source: swissinfo.ch