The defendants, who served 15 years of their sentence, have been released.
This is reported by Rivne24
The judge of the Rivne court made a decision to lift the preventive measure of round-the-clock house arrest for the suspects in the high-profile murder of Zinaida Rymchuk, reports RadioTrek.
The victims’ side plans to appeal this decision and is seeking life imprisonment for the defendants. Only one of the suspects, Pavlo Matiuk, was present at the hearing, and he left the courtroom without any obstacles after the proceedings.
It is worth recalling that the murder occurred back in 2012. On the night of August 22, the body of a 64-year-old retiree was found in a house on Zaliznychna Street in Rivne as a result of a fire.
During the examination of the crime scene, law enforcement discovered that the deceased’s car had gone missing from the yard, which was later found in one of the neighborhoods of Rivne.
It was established that the woman was strangled, and the house was set on fire to cover up the traces of the crime. The trial lasted over 12 years, and the defendants turned out to be Pavlo Globin and Pavlo Matiuk (a citizen of Russia).
During the investigation, new details of the tragedy were revealed. Zinaida Rymchuk and her son Yevhen were involved in business — they owned a grocery kiosk and a store. Initially, law enforcement considered the family’s business affairs as one of the versions of the murder. When the criminals learned that the family was on vacation abroad, they decided to rob their home. However, 64-year-old Zinaida Rymchuk remained at home.
The perpetrators broke into the premises but were unable to enter the house. They took power tools but left the doors closed. At that time, the woman was in the summer kitchen. A fight ensued, during which the woman was strangled. To check if she was alive, the criminals submerged her head in a pot of water.
After that, they set the summer kitchen on fire and stole the car from the yard, which they also attempted to burn.
The trial lasted over 10 years, and the suspects made every effort to delay the case, hoping to be released under the “Savchenko Law,” according to which one day spent in pre-trial detention counts as two days in prison.