{"id":509001,"date":"2026-01-12T13:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=509001"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:21:23","slug":"insulted-mother-two-young-men-sentenced-to-long-prison-terms-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/insulted-mother-two-young-men-sentenced-to-long-prison-terms-for-murder","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInsulted Mother.\u201d Two Young Men Sentenced to Long Prison Terms for Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Vitebsk Regional Court has found two residents of the Vitebsk region, aged 23 and 21, guilty of murder committed with particular cruelty by a group of persons, the Prosecutor\u2019s Office reported.<\/p>\n<p>One of the defendants was sentenced to 17 years in prison, while the other received 15 years and six months. Both will serve their terms in a high-security penal colony. In addition, the court ordered the convicts to pay, jointly, monetary compensation for moral damages to the victim\u2019s brother.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, the motive for the murder was a personal grievance. A witness testified that during a conflict the victim had insulted the mother of one of the accused. Prosecutors said the woman told her son that he should \u201cdeal with\u201d the offender. As a result, the two young men carried out a vigilante attack. They broke into the apartment of the 56-year-old victim and inflicted at least 40 blows with their hands and feet.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict has not yet entered into legal force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vitebsk Regional Court has found two residents of the Vitebsk region, aged 23 and 21, guilty of murder committed with particular cruelty by a group of persons, the Prosecutor\u2019s Office reported. One of the defendants was sentenced to 17 years in prison, while the other received 15 years and six months. Both will serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6964d9382840f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u201cInsulted Mother.\u201d Two Young Men Sentenced to Long Prison Terms for Murder"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}