Witnesses confirm bruises on pensioner Tomchak

The Court of the Gorodische District of the Volgograd Region, which considered the case of beating the pensioner Valentina Tomchak, has found contradictions in testimonies of one woman-witness.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Valentina Tomchak, a 75-year-old resident of Volgograd and a Category II invalid, claimed that July 7, 2014, Oleg Levin beat her up in his study. Levin was attracted as a defendant in the case in August 2016. Two female employees of the Investigating Committee (IC) stated that they had not seen Levin beating up Tomchak, and had not noticed any traumas on her.

Elena Arshinova, a Valentina Tomchak daughter-in-law, described her mother-in-law a "fair woman." According to her story, after the conflict at the IC, when the employee grabbed Tomchak's hand, and whirled her, and she was hit, she asked Elena to take pictures of bruises on her right arm.

Svetlana Novikova, an accountant of the garden non-profit partnership "Dubovaya Balka", said that Valentina Tomchak called her on July 7, 2014, and reported that she was kept at Gorodische Division of the IC, and that violence was applied to her. When they met, she saw a bruise on the pensioner's right hand.

The judge stated contradictions of the current Novikova's testimony with the one given at the preliminary investigation. He noted that earlier Novikova evidenced that she had seen bruises on the left arm. Novikova said that the investigator had distorted her statement. She confirmed that she saw bruises on the right arm.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.