Police officers in the Bratsk district of the Irkutsk region solved a double murder in 1997 in 2022. Now the court has handed down a sentence on a man who hacked and killed two residents of the village of Vikhorevka. It has been reported press office Prosecutor’s Office of the Irkutsk region.
The Bratsk District Court rendered a decision in the criminal case against a 63-year-old local resident. He was found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (killing of two people).
According to the investigation, which was confirmed in court, in mid-May 1997 the accused came to his compatriot’s house to take care of him. He committed unlawful acts against a friend of the accused. The man dealt multiple blows to the landlord’s head with an axe. He soon died of his wounds.
When the killer decided to cover his tracks, a friend of the victim came to the house and witnessed the murder. The man messed with him, wounding him with a knife and giving him several blows to the head with an axe. Then the vengeful set the house on fire.
Taking into account the opinion of the public prosecutor, the court sentenced him to 5 years in prison. He will spend this time in a strict regime penal colony.
In April, it became known that there is a resident of the Smolensk region. hacked to death hit him in the head 14 times with his friend’s axe.