A young woman has been sent to prison for insulting a man who walked free after gang-raping a 15-year-old girl in a Hamburg city park.

In 2020, a heavily intoxicated teenager was repeatedly raped by several men in the German city.

The case sent shockwaves around the world last year, when it was revealedeight out of the nine perpetratorswould not face prison time. They received suspended sentences. Only one rapist was sent to youth prison for two years and nine months. One was acquitted.

Now, a 20-year-old woman from the city has been sent to prison after making “hateful” remarks towards a migrant who was involved and remains at large.

Last week, a young woman was convicted by a district court of insulting and threatening one of the rapists, a justice spokeswoman confirmed to German national newspaper Die Welt.

According to local newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt, she wrote, among other things, that he was a “dishonourable rapist pig” and a “disgusting freak”. She also threatened him that he would “not be able to go anywhere anymore” without being beaten up.

Authorities in Hamburg are investigating 140 cases of insults, threats or other statements to the detriment of the rapists, the Hamburger Abendblatt reports.

The ten men accused of the crime had been charged with raping the girl during a two-and-a-half-hour ordeal on the night of September 19, 2020.

According to Die Welt, of the ten defendants, five were "German citizens" the others were from Syria, Montenegro, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Armenia