A drunken Minsk man threatened a cohabitant with murder, beat her and strangled her - sentence was pronounced

Sentenced 47-year-old previously convicted citizen, who was accused of death threats, told the correspondent of the Agency “Minsk-Novosti” in the Prosecutor’s office of Pervomaysky district.

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The accused has been living in an apartment on the street for nine years. Shafarnyanskaya with a woman who is a disabled group III. She is in a dependent position on the defendant, because due to the existing disease, she needs daily care, and she does not have any relatives or relatives.

One morning, while intoxicated, the accused was at home and began to conflict with his partner. The verbal spat quickly turned into a fight. The defendant, expressing death threats, inflicted at least six blows on the woman’s head and torso, which caused her to fall, strangle her. A frightened Minsk woman, seizing the moment, reported what happened on line 102.

Subsequently, another criminal case was opened against the Minsk citizen. He did not admit guilt in court.

- The accused was employed under a contract as a cleaner in a private organization, in March 2023 he was already brought to criminal responsibility for committing a similar crime, said Margarita Potemkina, senior assistant prosecutor of the Pervomaysky district, who acted as a state prosecutor in this criminal case. In both cases, criminal proceedings were initiated by the district prosecutor, since the victim each time forgave the partner and refused to bring him to justice. Moreover, she is currently pregnant with him.

The court found a citizen guilty of threatening to kill, if there were grounds to fear its implementation, and on the basis of Art. 186 of the Criminal Code imposed a punishment of one year of restriction of freedom without sending to an open-type correctional institution. The accused must also undergo compulsory treatment for chronic alcoholism.