SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia / TASS / – The Vsevolozhsk City Court sent into custody two people accused of murdering a man whose body fell out of the trunk of a car that got into an accident in the Leningrad region. Both defendants, including one who confessed to another murder a year ago, will remain in jail until January 20, the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Leningrad Region said on Monday.
“At the request of the investigating body, the court chose two men accused of murder as a preventive measure in the form of detention,” the statement says.
The press service of the courts of the Leningrad region also clarified the names of the accused – this is a resident of St. Petersburg Yan Shchepanovsky and a resident of the city of Murino Yegor Komarov. Both are 23 years old, both are charged with a crime under paragraph “g” of Part 2 of Art. 105 (“Murder”).
It is reported that the third person involved, who is charged with concealing the crime, was released on recognizance not to leave.
Investigators found that on Saturday, in a garage on Laboratory Street in St. Petersburg, two drunken men stabbed him several times during a conflict with a man born in 1971. After that, they decided to take the body of the murdered man by car to the Leningrad Region and asked an acquaintance to help them by car. In the garage, they took the necessary equipment, and set the building on fire. Then, on the road, the driver lost control and crashed into a fence. All three accomplices fled the scene of the crime, but were soon arrested.
On Monday, two of them were charged with murder and the third with harboring him. One of the accused confessed to investigators in another murder committed in September 2020 with the intent of cannibalism.
This story was originally published by TASS.
