Verkhnedvinsk resident sentenced to 19 years for brutal murder of pensioner

May 19, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. A long prison sentence was handed down to a resident of Verkhnedvinsk for the brutal murder of a pensioner, Dmitry Orekhva, senior prosecutor of the department for supervision of the legality of court decisions in criminal cases and analysis of judicial practice of the Vitebsk region prosecutor's office, told a BELTA correspondent. Taking advantage of the kind attitude of his former elderly teacher, the man broke into her home at night demanding money for alcohol. Accusations against his lifestyle caused a storm of rage in the alcohol-fueled idler, and he strangled the elderly woman. Then, trying to hide the traces of the crime, the man staged a fire. For the murder of a deliberately elderly person and arson, the man was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment. The sentence has entered into legal force.-0-