A Licence to Kill: Khmelnytskyi Acquits Colony Staff Accused of a Prisoner’s Death
By a verdict of the Khmelnytskyi City District Court of Khmelnytskyi Region dated 12 December 2022 (case No. 686/13590/16-k), two employees of Zamkova Correctional Colony (No. 58) were acquitted. They had been accused of beating a prisoner to death several years ago. Ninety-five pieces of evidence in the case were ruled inadmissible.
On 21 October 2015, they were deployed to the Khmelnytskyi Pre-trial Detention Centre. During a personal search of convict D. for his subsequent transfer to Sokal Correctional Colony No. 47, they collectively inflicted numerous blows to various parts of D.’s body with their fists, feet, and rubber truncheons. At least 19 of these blows were to the head. The victim, D., died from the bodily injuries sustained.
