WORLD : Women Who Slew Rapist Get Prison
<i> From Times wire services </i>
FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus —
A Turkish-Cypriot court today sentenced a West Berlin mother and daughter to prison for killing a rapist who attacked them in a lonely seaside camping site.
Uthe Loh, 48, got four years in prison. Her daughter Melani, 20, got three years.
The court said that by the time of his death Ozmen Tulga, 20, was weakened by his struggles with the two tourists and no longer posed a threat to them. It also said the women had failed to run away.
The women, who came to Cyprus on vacation in March, sat impassively in the dock.
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