Starving for milk St. Petersburg beat the seller and went to the colony

In St. Petersburg, two men received sentences for attacking a store employee. According to the joint press service of the courts, the defendants beat the seller, threatened with murder and cut his hand with a knife.

In 2025, an incident occurred at the entrance to the grocery store. An employee made a remark to a man who hid dairy products under his clothes. From the testimony of the victim, to his demand to lay out the goods, the man in a rude manner replied: “What does it matter to you?”, “I still did not reach the cash register”, “I was previously convicted and people like you spun”, while taking products from under the sweater. When a store employee threatened to call police, the situation escalated.

One of the defendants leaned on the employee of the store and crushed him with weight. The second defendant stabbed him at least ten times in the head and body. A man with a stationery knife then approached the man lying down and, threatening murder, struck two blows to his left arm, leaving cut wounds on his forearm and hands.

Both defendants pleaded guilty in full. The court took into account that the defendants were previously convicted, their convictions have not yet been removed. Thus, one of the accused was assigned 2 years in a colony-settlement, and the second - 2 years 4 months in a correctional colony of strict regime.