In Kamensk-Uralsky, police detained three previously convicted citizens suspected of beating to death of their friend.

According to the State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region, on April 21, 2017 at 22:00 in the apartment of the house on Privokzalnaya Street policemen discovered the corpse of a 42-year-old local resident with signs of violent death.

Earlier, law-enforcers were approached by neighbors of the man, having told about an unpleasant smell from an apartment and a possible incident. The owner of the dwelling was lonely, abused alcohol.

"On the scene came the investigative-operational group, representatives of the investigative. The initial examination showed that the body of the deceased has clear signs of violent death. According to rough estimates, the duration of the man's death was more than five days. As a result of the operative-search activities, the police detained three unemployed previously convicted citizens of 1968, 1967 and 1974, "the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region.

Criminals confessed to the deed. It turned out that as early as April 12 in the evening, while in the apartment of the victim, they drank alcohol along with him. After a while, between the participants of the feast a conflict arose, during which three guests beat up the owner of the dwelling to death. After that, two of them left the crime scene, and the third remained in the victim's apartment for a couple of days.

The territorial subdivision of the Investigative Committee on this fact instituted criminal proceedings on the grounds of the crime provided for in part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, whose sanction is up to 15 years of imprisonment.

"It should be noted that the detainees have been repeatedly convicted. Two, born in 1974 and 1967, were still on the Criminal Code of the RSFSR: the first for hijackings, the threat of murder, robbery, theft and fraud, the second for malicious evasion of alimony payments, poaching, beatings, hooliganism and just like a friend, - for theft and death threats. Their accomplice in 1968 was involved in criminal liability for theft and robbery, "the police said..