Uwe Kolbig - Convicted Pedophile kills 9 year old boy

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"
.........Sarah Tofte

Police are using tracker dogs, helicopters and heat-seeking equipment in their hunt for a convicted paedophile who is believed to have raped and killed a boy of nine.

Authorities in the German city of Leipzig released chilling photographs of the last sighting of Mitja Hofmann, whose body was found in an allotment.

He was captured by CCTV as he sat on a tram - next to known pervert Uwe Kolbig, 43.



Kolbig has already served two years in prison for sexually abusing children in 1998.

Spokesman Uwe Matthias believes Mitja met the suspect at a tram stop and they had boarded together.

"That is where the cameras filmed the man with the boy," he said.

Since the pictures and 4,000 leaflets were distributed more than 50 sightings of the suspect have been reported to police.



More than 200 officers have been searching a woodland area north of Leipzig.

Mitja's parents Gabriela, 50, and Joerg, 49, are being treated by psychologists. They have seven other children.

Germans are now calling for strickter penalties for paedophiles.