German teacher stabbed by obsessed pupil

A German teacher was stabbed to death by an obsessed former pupil who placed a GPS tracking device on her car to follow and then kill her.

Published: 5:00PM GMT 20 Dec 2009

Chemistry mistress Heike Beyermann, 35, was stabbed 20 times by Gero Schmidt, 21, in the town of Osterholz-Scharmbeck, near Bremen.

She was yards from her front door when he struck and a passer-by who came to help was unable to save her.

Police said the man had wanted to ask "several thousand questions" of his former teacher and declared his love for her before he attacked.

"She had spurned his advances but he was a strange loner, totally obsessed by her," said police.

Miss Beyermann was "beloved of her pupils" at a high school in the town where she lived and had previously contacted police because she feared he might try to kill her.

A police search of his home at the time turned up gunpowder and fireworks but police felt they had nothing "substantial" to lay charges against him.

Schmidt, a corporal in the German army, called police after the murder on Friday and then waited to be arrested.

State prosecutor Uwe Picard said he gave his name and spoke lucidly during the call, telling police: "I've killed someone. I've put down my weapon. Please pick me up."

During his interrogation, he said he had prepared several questions on various topics which he wanted to put to his former teacher.

He told police how he had fixed a GPS tracking device to the teacher's car at about 10am on Friday and used it to follow her to the car park near her home where he confronted her.

He also told detectives he had her under surveillance "for some time".

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6850619/German-teacher-stabbed-by-obsessed-pupil.html