ZADAR, Oct 6 (Hina) - The County Court in the central Adriatic port of Zadar on Friday sentenced the killers of a Serb returnee to Croatia to nine and ten years in prison. The court proved that 24-year-old Milan Krncevic and
22-year-old Sime Radovic, both from Vir, an island off the Zadar coast, on March 1 beat Serb returnee Nedjeljko Stulic, causing him injuries to which he succumbed in Zadar's general hospital that same night. Third indictee Edis Basic, aged 26, was acquitted because the court did not produce evidence against him. The panel of judges, presided by Milivoj Lasan, assessed the murder was committed in a particularly brutal fashion. The court refused the prosecution's claim that the murder had been planned. Krncevic, sentenced to nine, and Radovic, to ten years, said they deeply repented the murder, and calmly accepted the verdict. The trial was monitored by a considerable numbe
KILLERS OF SERB RETURNEE SENTENCED TO NINE, TEN YEARS IN PRISON
ZADAR, Oct 6 (Hina) - The County Court in the central Adriatic port
of Zadar on Friday sentenced the killers of a Serb returnee to
Croatia to nine and ten years in prison.
The court proved that 24-year-old Milan Krncevic and 22-year-old
Sime Radovic, both from Vir, an island off the Zadar coast, on March
1 beat Serb returnee Nedjeljko Stulic, causing him injuries to
which he succumbed in Zadar's general hospital that same night.
Third indictee Edis Basic, aged 26, was acquitted because the court
did not produce evidence against him.
The panel of judges, presided by Milivoj Lasan, assessed the murder
was committed in a particularly brutal fashion. The court refused
the prosecution's claim that the murder had been planned.
Krncevic, sentenced to nine, and Radovic, to ten years, said they
deeply repented the murder, and calmly accepted the verdict.
The trial was monitored by a considerable number of Vir residents,
as well as representatives of the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe.
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