A court has sentenced a man accused of murdering a girl in Samara to almost 25 years in a penal colony.

A court has sentenced a man accused of murdering a girl who was thrown out of her own car in Samara in 2023 to 24 years and 11 months in a high-security penal colony. This was announced on April 11 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the courtroom.

"To impose a sentence of imprisonment for a period of 24 years and 11 months with serving a sentence in a high-security penal colony with restriction of liberty for a period of two years," the judge announced.

On July 3, 2023, a girl born in 1989 was thrown out of a car on Vodnikov Street with her throat slit. According to eyewitness Egor Belyaev, she was still alive at that moment. The young man felt for a pulse, passers-by and medics tried to bring the victim to consciousness, but they could not save her.

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The attacker abandoned the car in another part of the city and left the Samara region. Soon, the suspect, a 21-year-old man, was detained in Kazan. As it turned out, the car belonged to the victim, and the detainee was her potential buyer. Investigators opened a criminal case, the man did not admit his guilt.