A court in Ekhirit-Bulagatsky District of the Irkutsk region handed down a verdict in a murder case, confirming the fatal act was carried out by a man known to the victim, using his own hands. The 48-year-old local resident was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which covers murder, according to an official Telegram release from the district attorney’s office.
According to the case file, the incident unfolded in September 2017 when the accused, who had been drinking heavily, returned to his house in the village of Ust-Ordynsky in the evening. A quarrel ensued with a 32-year-old woman who was a friend of the accused. What started as a heated argument escalated into a physical confrontation. During the struggle, the man grabbed the woman by her hands and forced them against her throat, cutting off her ability to breathe. In a moment of intense pressure, she died from mechanical suffocation while he remained at her side, seemingly aware of the fatal outcome but making no attempt to seek help.
Following the act, the perpetrator attempted to conceal the crime. He summoned a friend, and together they moved the victim’s body to an abandoned quarry. The whereabouts of the remains were only discovered several years later, in 2022, when law enforcement located the body and detained an associate of the victim. The court’s assessment, supported by the prosecutor, led to a sentencing decision that this man should serve seven and a half years in a strict regime penal colony, reflecting the severity of the offense and the need for deterrence.
In another line of inquiry related to regional crime investigations, authorities reported that a separate case involved the discovery of a skier’s body in 2022, previously linked to a location on a lake in Karelia. This detail was noted during public briefings as part of ongoing regional security and forensic investigations, though it concerns a different incident and jurisdiction from the Irkutsk region case described above.
Additionally, officials referenced an earlier, unrelated incident in the Perm Territory where neighbors, after a dispute fueled by heavy alcohol consumption, damaged each other’s property, including their baths and a house. This example was cited in statements about how alcohol-related conflicts can escalate into property damage or violence, underscoring the broader public safety context that law enforcement and judicial bodies monitor across the federation. [Source: Telegram channel of the district attorney’s office]”