2 November 2004
Cab driver killer gets life sentence in Brest region
A judge of the Brest Regional Court has handed down a life sentence to a 20-year-old resident of a village in the Pinsk district, finding him guilty of murdering two taxi drivers. Another 20-year-old man has been sentenced to 24.5 years in prison for complicity in one of the murders.
The pair were arrested hours after police discovered a taxi driver's body with 38 stab wounds in his vehicle 200 meters off a major highway outside Pinsk this past March. One of the suspects soon confessed to killing another cabby, who was reported missing since 2003. The victim's body was soon unearthed near the village of Ivanisovska, Pinsk district. An accomplice who helped bury the latter victim has gotten a 1.5-year sentence. Six cab drivers have been killed in Pinsk and the Pinsk district since 1995.
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