Man Accused Of Killing Two Girls In Babruisk Sentenced To Death

The verdict can be appealed.

36-year-old unemployed Babruisk resident Aliaksandr Asipovich was sentenced to death for the murder of two girls with extreme cruelty. On July 20, 2018 their bodies with signs of violent death were found in the bathroom of his apartment, according to tut.by.

The accused met the victims in a cafe, from where all three of them took a taxi to his home. According to the prosecution, the defendant hit one of the victims with a hammer and his fists 77 times in the vital organs. The second victim received 16 wounds, almost all - in the head and neck. After that, Asipovich “took measures to dismember and conceal the corpses”.

In his last word, Aliaksandr Asipovich said that he was fully aware of what had happened.

- What could have provoked me to such actions, I do not know. I am a kind and sentimental man ... I repent of my deed and apologize to everyone. I ask the court to give me an opportunity to save my life, work and pay money to the families of the victims.

The verdict has not entered into force and can be appealed.

In 2018, four people were executed in Belarus: the repeatedly convicted resident of Narovlia Aliaksei Mikhalenia, who in March 2016 murdered his retired neighbors; Viktar Letau, who in 2017 was convicted for murdering a cellmate in a penal colony in Hlybokaye, as well as two defendants in the case of “black realtors” Siamion Berazhny and Ihar Hershankou.

According to human rights activists, Aliaksandr Zhylnikau and Viachaslau Sukharka, found guilty of killing three people, remain in the death convicts cell now.

Belarus is the only European country that applies the death penalty. Over the past 20 years, more than 400 death convicts have been executed.