12 April 2017, 04:15
Prosecutor's Office requests to reconsider verdict to Mark Yavorsky, a visually impaired resident of Sochi
The Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory has submitted to the Presidium of the Regional Court a proposal with a request to change the verdict to Mark Yavorsky, a visually impaired young man from Sochi, sentenced for 7.5 years of imprisonment on the charge of involvement in a double murder. The verdict has been challenged after the mother of the sentenced young man appealed to the Prosecutor's Office.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that according to investigators, Mark Yavorsky was involved in the beating of two men who lived on the territory of an abandoned sanatorium in Sochi, as a result of which they died. On August 19, 2016, the court sentenced Mark Yavorsky to 8 years of imprisonment, and on February 17, 2017, the Regional Court reduced the sentence to 7.5 years of imprisonment.
The investigators believe that Mark Yavorsky committed a murder, since the victims tried to rape his girlfriend. According to the defence, when the young man with his girlfriend left the territory of the sanatorium, all the people involved to the conflict were alive, and that fact was confirmed by records from surveillance cameras. Besides, the defence also insists that prosecution witnesses three other men living in the sanatorium's territory directly participated in the beatings, but avoided responsibility due to their testimonies against Mark Yavorsky.
On April 11, the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory got a response to the complaint filed by the Mark Yavorsky's mother, who asked the supervisory authority to intervene in her son's case.
"After the Regional Court of the Krasnodar Territory pronounced the verdict to my son, I immediately appealed to the regional Prosecutor's Office with a request to intervene in the situation. In my complaint, I indicated that my son was not a murderer and that there was no evidence proving that (his involvement in the murder)," Oksana Yavorskaya told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
According to the woman, the Prosecutor's Office of the KrasnodarTerritory has investigated the case and listened to the arguments of her son's defence.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.
Author: Svetlana Kravchenko Source: CK correspondent
