Swede jailed for murder of Holocaust survivor

A Swedish white supremacist and would-be serial killer was jailed for life in Germany yesterday for the murder of an elderly Holocaust survivor more than 25 years ago.

John Ausonius, known as “Laserman” in his native Sweden, was found guilty of shooting dead Blanka Zmigrod, a 68-year-old cloakroom attendant, near her Frankfurt home in February 1992.

Ausonius, now 64, has already served more than two decades of a life sentence in Sweden for a random gun attack in which he killed an Iranian man and seriously injured 10 people.