The court in Kemerovo ruled in the case of the murder of 23-year-old student Vera Pekhteleva in January 2020. Five police officers were sentenced to suspended sentences, TASS reports.
The court found the employees of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs guilty of negligence: Major Mikhail Balashov and Captain Dmitry Taritsyn and dispatcher Maria Ponomareva were sentenced to two years of suspended imprisonment, and dispatchers Maria Dunaeva and Kristina Yudintseva were sentenced to 1.5 years of suspended imprisonment.
As the investigation established, the police did not respond to calls from neighbors about screams in the apartment where the murder took place. The prosecutor’s office demanded that employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs be sent to a colony for 3.5 years.
Recall that 23-year-old Vera Pekhteleva was killed in January 2020. She came to the former young man Vladislav Kanyus to pick up things. The latter inflicted 56 bodily wounds on the girl, and then strangled her with a cord from an iron. The murder process lasted three and a half hours. Neighbors called the police several times.
The killer was sentenced in July 2022 to 17 years in a strict regime colony. However, the mother of the student said the day before that he went to the zone of military operations. Now the relatives of the victim fear for their lives, Kommersant writes.
Source: Rosbalt
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