Police arrest suspect who beat 95-year-old woman and took away her last savings
The arrest took place on March 24 in the territory of Kharkiv region by the officers of the Criminal Investigation Department, the territorial unit of the GUNP in the Vinnytsia region and the fighters of the special unit KORD. The attacker committed a robbery attack on an elderly pensioner on March 19. In a mask, he broke into the victim's house in the Zhmerinsky district, beat her and, threatened with a knife, took money.
On March 21, a 26-year-old Kyiv woman contacted the police with a report that three days ago, around four o'clock in the morning, her elderly grandmother, who lives in the territory of Kopaygorod territorial community, was attacked by an unknown person. He knocked on his grandmother, and when she opened the door, he grabbed her by the neck, began to beat and choke, threatened to deal with a knife, demanding money. The helpless woman gave him the last 300 hryvnias.
According to the head of the GUNP in the Vinnytsia region Ivan Ishchenko, at the scene of the incident, the police investigative and operational team conducted priority investigative actions, interviewed the victim and neighbors. Thanks to investigative and investigative measures, as well as material evidence recovered from the scene, the police established the identity of the attacker. He was a 27-year-old resident of the same village. The investigators found out that after committing the crime, he went to Kharkiv region. Investigators in absentia informed the offender about the suspicion of committing the crime stipulated in Part 3 of Art
. 187 CCU (robbery), and petitioned to elect him a precautionary measure - detention, which the court satisfied. March 24 in the city.
Pervomaisky on the territory of one of the private enterprises, where the attacker was employed as a tractor driver, he was detained by the fighters of the Vinnytsia Cord. The perpetrator confessed to what he had done.
The detainee is currently in a temporary detention facility. For such a crime, he faces up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Department of communication of police of Vinnytsia region
