13:21 16.01.2018

Police investigators mull whether Nozdrovska killer had accomplice

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The suspect in the murder of lawyer Iryna Nozdrovska Yuriy Rossoshansky may have had an accomplice who helped him hide the body, advisor to the Minister of Internal of Affairs Anton Gerashchenko has said.

"May be Rossoshansky had an accomplice, who helped him hide the corpse. Investigators are looking into this," he told journalists in Kyiv on Tuesday. Gerashchenko added that namely Yuriy Rossoshansky killed Nozdrovska with knives.

As earlier reported, lawyer Nozdrovska, who lived in the village of Demydiv in Vyshgorod district, Kyiv region, was found dead in a river on January 1, 2018. A criminal case on deliberate murder was opened.

On January 8, it became known about the detention of a suspect in this crime. He is Yuriy Rossoshansky, Dmytro Rossoshansky's father, convicted in May 2017 for seven years for a fatal crash, in which, in September 2015, Nozdrovska's sister, Svitlana Sapatynska, was killed.

On January 9, the Vyshgorodsky District Court of Kyiv region chose a preventive measure to Rossoshansky in the form of custody for 60 days - until March 8 inclusive. This decision can be appealed in the Court of Appeal of Kyiv region.

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