Resident of St. Petersburg receives 19 years in prison for killing a boy from Uzbekistan

In St. Petersburg, the court sentenced the man who killed a boy from Uzbekistan to 19 years in prison, the press service of the Main Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports.

The investigation and the court found that on January 26, 2018, a man near one of the houses on Vitebsky Prospect, killed a boy born in 2006, because of his personal hostility to his parents.

Acting out of revenge, the man struck him at least 20 times with unidentified objects, choked with his hands, as a result of which he died on the spot. Then the defendant hid the body of the boy, throwing construction debris and car tires on him.

The court sentenced the convict to 19 years of imprisonment in a colony with strict regime.