Today, January 20, a hearing on the high-profile case of Mykola Tarasov began in the Razdelnyan district court of the Odesa region. At this meeting, the court must issue a verdict.
Tarasov tried to commit suicide, shouted: "Today I will put an end to it." After that, he cut himself in the neck with a blade. The court session is interrupted, the accused is being helped. He cries loudly.
Updated at 10:35: Tarasov was taken to the hospital for medical treatment. According to the grandmother of the murdered girl, Ekaterina Lukyanenko, at one of the closed sessions, Tarasov said that his parents helped him commit the crime. In addition, she believes that the demand for suicide is a game for the cameras and another demand will delay the meeting. The lawyer of the victims expressed the same opinion.
Updated at 11:17 p.m After being treated at the hospital, Tarasov was again brought to the courtroom. Apparently, the injury was not so serious.
Updated at 14:15 p.m Mykola Tarasov was found guilty of child abduction, murder and attempted rape and sentenced to 15 years in prison. In addition, he will have to pay 800 hryvnias to the family of the victim as compensation for moral and material damage.
Let us remind you that Dasha Lukyanenko went missing on June 13, 2019 in the village of Ivanovka, Odesa Region. The police, relatives and volunteers searched for her for about a week, and on June 19, her body was found in a cesspool in the yard of the private house of 22-year-old Nikolay Tarasov. He was immediately detained on suspicion of murder. According to the investigation, he dragged the girl to his house and tried to rape her, but he did not succeed. Then he put a bag on her head, and then hit her neck with a sharp object, which is why she died. To hide the traces of the crime, he hid the body in a cesspool.
