A man from Purcari village was sentenced to 22 years and six months in jail for committing two murders, one in August 2018 and the other one a year later. A co-villager of this got three years for favoring the first crime, IPN reports.
In August 2018, the two offenders and another man from the same village drank alcoholic beverages together in the yard of one of these. As a result of a quarrel, one of the individuals started to punch the guest and then stabbed him mortally with a kitchen knife. To hide the crime, the offender asked the other guest to help him bury the body. The two tied the body with barbed wire and buried it in the backward of the house.
In about a year, the story repeated, but this time the victim was the father of the one who helped him hide the traces of the first crime. The victim was stabbed fatally as a result of a drinking bout at the culprit’s home and the body was buried in the garden.
The truth came out in September 2019, when the other culprit informed the police that his father went missing over a month ago.
The sentence can be appealed to a higher court.
