The jury took just two hours to find Alexandru Caliniuc, now 27, guilty of murder and rape with torture.
Stating there was no doubt Caliniuc acted with premeditation, the jury found that he was fully aware Sofie was dying as he was filming, and he dragged her several times to hide her while she was still alive.
So on 25 May this year, Caliniuc was sentenced to 25 years in prison. The Romanian national will serve the sentence in his country of origin.
‘You held a life in your hands and you threw it away. Careless and indifferent,’ Chairman Willem De Pauw told him on sentencing.
By this point, Caliniuc already had a reputation behind bars for being ‘deranged and perverse’, having attempted to sexually assault another inmate.
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