The court sentenced a resident of the city of Engels in the Saratov region to 19 years in prison for the murder of his parents. This was reported by the press service of the district prosecutor’s office in its own newspaper. telegraph channel.
According to the ministry, the murder took place on the night of March 7. A 35-year-old man killed his 56-year-old father by hitting him on the head several times with a rubber mallet. He later strangled his 57-year-old mother. The killer took the corpses to the balcony, kept them there, and dismembered them with a hacksaw for a month.
The attacker tried to hide the traces of the crime by putting the remains in plastic bags.
The Prosecutor’s Office announced that he did not admit his guilt, saying that his father strangled the convict’s mother, and that he was defending himself against his father, who allegedly attacked and killed him. The district investigation committee explained that the motive for the murder may have been a longstanding resentment against the parents.
The man was sentenced to 19 years in a strict regime colony with a two-year freedom restriction. The decision has not yet entered into force and can be appealed.
formerly Russian received six years in prison for murdering and dismembering her ex-husband.