The court gave five years of real life to an accomplice of the murder of journalist Vyacheslav Veremiy Yuri Krysin.

This "Ukrainian Truth" was informed by the lawyer of the mother of journalist Victoria Deineka.

"The prosecutor's office asked 6, I asked 7, the maximum is for sanction, but the court overturned the sentence. and gave 5 real years, "she explained..

Thus, the Court of Appeal of Kiev granted the appeal of the prosecutor's office and the parties affected by the verdict of the first instance, which gave Rat 4 years of probation.

According to Deineka, the court's motivation was, in particular, that there was no sincere remorse of Ratin.

"The appeal indicated that according to his behavior even in the Court of Appeal it was not visible that he sincerely repented," the defender noted, adding that in the previous sentence the court indicated repentance as a mitigating circumstance.

In addition, Krysin did not in any way try to eliminate the severe consequences for Veremia, as explained by Deineka, also became the basis for an appeal.

"And did not take into account (the court of first instance - UP), that this is a serious crime, therefore, conditional punishment can not be corrected," said the lawyer.

She said she was happy with the verdict. Is her client happy, the mother of the journalist, the defender does not know yet.

Ratin's lawyer Tatyana Hnatyuk commented in the commentary that she plans to appeal the verdict.

"I will appeal against it within the timeframe established by law," Hnatiuk said..