In the village of Mali Feski in the Zolochivska community in Kharkiv region, a man strangled his wife in front of his five-year-old son and disguised the murder as "rape." He was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison. This was reported by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, according to UNN.
Following a public prosecution by the prosecutors of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, the court found the 37-year-old man guilty of premeditated murder (Part 1 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. This is the maximum sanction for this crime,
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Prosecutors proved that in the evening of October 26, 2018, in the village of Mali Feski, Zolochiv community, a man was at home with his wife and 5-year-old son.
During the conflict, the woman said she was tired of the constant scandals and added that she would leave her husband. At that time, he pushed his wife onto the couch, sat on top of her and strangled her.
Their little son watched his father kill his mother. The boy cried and asked him to stop. Then the man got out of bed and went outside, thinking about possible ways to conceal the murder he had committed. He went to his friend who lived in the neighborhood, told him the whole truth and "asked him to help,
The men returned to the house, took the woman's body and went to the territory of the abandoned enterprise. The accused completely undressed the woman, tore her clothes and staged a "rape".
The murderer gave his friend parts of the dead wife's phone and asked him to throw them away, which the friend did. The next day, the murderer called his wife's parents and said that she had not returned home from work. However, he did not take into account the fact that it was not her shift that day.
At the court hearing, the attacker did not admit his guilt and added that "the case was fabricated against him." His friend had previously confessed to the crime and was found guilty of concealing the crime (Part 1 of Article 396 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The time limit for appealing is running out.
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