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Crime | October 20, 2014, Monday // 18:26
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Nikolay Rusinov has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 28-year-old Yana Krasteva in Sofia in 2011. Photo by BGNES
Nikolay Rusinov has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 28-year-old Yana Krasteva in Sofia in 2011.
The sentence was issued by the Sofia City Court on Monday.
The prosecuting authority had demanded a penalty of life imprisonment due to the brutality of the murder, according to reports of the BGNES news agency.
The body of 28-year-old Yana Krasteva was found in the central Borisova Gradina park in downtown Sofia on July 10 2011.
She had been bludgeoned and strangled to death after a rock concert at the Bulgarian Army Stadium on the previous night.
The trial against Rusinov started on January 31, 2013.
He has been in custody since his arrest in end-April 2012.
According to the prosecuting authority, Rusinov killed the woman intentionally with the help of unknown accomplices.
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