Louise Jensen
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Louise Jensen was a tour guide
from Denmark
who was abducted by British soldiers
, Allan Ford, Justin Fowler, and Geoffrey Pernell, while working in Cyprus
. The soldiers, who were members of the Royal Green Jackets
, repeatedly raped Jensen, then beat her to death with a shovel before burying her in a shallow grave.
On 27 March 1996, the three soldiers were convicted of abduction, rape and manslaughter and sentenced to life imprisonment. Their sentences were cut to 25 years on appeal in 1998, and they were released in August 2006 after spending just under 12 years in custody.
Louise Jensen was working as a tour guide
for the Danish travel company Star Tours at the time she was killed.
One long-term effect of this case was for the British military to declare certain tourist resorts on the island as out of bounds to military personnel.
Tour guide
A tour guide provides assistance, information and cultural, historical and contemporary heritage interpretation to people on organized tours, individual clients, educational establishments, at religious and historical sites, museums, and at venues of other significant interest...
from Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
who was abducted by British soldiers
British Armed Forces
The British Armed Forces are the armed forces of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Also known as Her Majesty's Armed Forces and sometimes legally the Armed Forces of the Crown, the British Armed Forces encompasses three professional uniformed services, the Royal Navy, the...
, Allan Ford, Justin Fowler, and Geoffrey Pernell, while working in Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
. The soldiers, who were members of the Royal Green Jackets
Royal Green Jackets
The Royal Green Jackets was an infantry regiment of the British Army, one of two "large regiments" within the Light Division .-History:...
, repeatedly raped Jensen, then beat her to death with a shovel before burying her in a shallow grave.
On 27 March 1996, the three soldiers were convicted of abduction, rape and manslaughter and sentenced to life imprisonment. Their sentences were cut to 25 years on appeal in 1998, and they were released in August 2006 after spending just under 12 years in custody.
Louise Jensen was working as a tour guide
Tour guide
A tour guide provides assistance, information and cultural, historical and contemporary heritage interpretation to people on organized tours, individual clients, educational establishments, at religious and historical sites, museums, and at venues of other significant interest...
for the Danish travel company Star Tours at the time she was killed.
One long-term effect of this case was for the British military to declare certain tourist resorts on the island as out of bounds to military personnel.
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, The Independent.