All suspects in the criminal case on the murder attempt and sexual assault of a 29-year-old resident of the village of Vradiivka in Mykolaiv region, Iryna Krashkova, are to remain behind bars for two more months, TSN has reported.
Pervomaisky District Court issued a respective ruling on Wednesday.
Thus, the period of detention of Yevhen Dryzhak, Dmytro Polischuk,
Serhiy Rabinenko and Mykhailo Kudrinsky ends on January 25, 2014.
About 20 residents of the village of Vradiivka arrived at the court
on Wednesday, demanding that the suspects be sentenced to life.
Krashkova thanked them for their support before the court hearing.
In addition, according to TSN, an ambulance was called for Dryzhak in
court, but doctors said that he was fit to attend the court hearing.
As reported, on June 26, two police officers and a taxi driver are
alleged to have pulled a 29-year-old woman into a car in the village of
Vradiivka, Mykolaiv region, and taken her to a nearby forest, where they
beat her up and raped her. The victim was hospitalized with fractures
of the skull, cuts to the head and face, and multiple severe bruises.
Two police officers – Lieutenant Dmytro Polischuk and Senior
Lieutenant Yevhen Dryzhak – and a local taxi driver, Mykhailo Rabinenko,
are suspected of having committed the crime.
Polischuk and Rabinenko were detained on June 30, while the fact that
the second policeman, Dryzhak, who supposedly had an alibi, was not
immediately detained triggered protests by local residents, who demanded
his arrest.
On July 1, local residents stormed the district police department demanding that the police officers involved be prosecuted.
Dryzhak was detained on July 2. On July 3, the court ruled that he be
placed under two months detention as a pre-trial restriction measure.
On August 5, the charges against three suspects were changed from
causing grievous bodily harm to an attempted murder committed with
extreme cruelty with selfish motives, in order to conceal another crime
by prior agreement of the parties.
In addition, one of the suspects is charged with carrying out an
assault, another two with rape, an assault, as well as committing a
number of official crimes.
On August 14, the court also extended the period of detention for Dryzhak until September 27.
On September 2, the Prosecutor’s Office in Mykolaiv region sent to
court an indictment against four suspects of committing a crime against
Krashkova.
