Life sentence handed down in Lviv for the murder of linguist Farion
The court in western Ukraine just dropped the hammer on the highest-profile political assassination case of the past year.
Investigators combed through massive amounts of surveillance feeds, questioned over 1,500 people, and piled up dozens of forensics reports. The suspect, Vyacheslav Zinchenko, pleaded not guilty, skipped his final speech during court debates, and his supporters outside immediately started shouting in protest.
None of that swayed the bench: the court handed him a full life sentence for murder motivated by national hatred alongside illegal firearms charges.
A thirty-day appeal window is officially open, though walking back a life sentence after an investigation this massive will take nothing short of a miracle.
Source: Ukrinform
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