Lauren Mann
Died 24 January 2016
Who they were
Lauren was 25, an American from Colorado, and worked as an au pair in Vienna.
What happened
On 24 January 2016 Lauren was found dead in her apartment on Wiedner Hauptstraße in Vienna; forensic examiners found she had been suffocated. A Gambian asylum seeker was arrested at a refugee centre in Switzerland and in June 2016 unanimously convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Landesgericht Wien. The Oberster Gerichtshof dismissed his nullity plea in December 2016.
Verdict / confirmation
Landesgericht Wien, 15 Jun 2016: life imprisonment for murder; Oberster Gerichtshof dismissed the nullity plea, 16 Dec 2016.
Perpetrator: A Gambian asylum seeker in Austria (NBC, AP, derStandard).