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KRASNODAR, March 24 A former police officer who drunk to death knocked down a cyclist was sentenced in the Kuban to six years and ten months in a colony-settlement, the regional prosecutor's office reported in Friday.
«The former assistant to the operational duty officer of the duty unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Shcherbinovsky District was convicted under paragraph «a» of Part 4 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of the traffic rules, resulting in the death of the victim through negligence, committed while intoxicated) … The court sentenced the defendant to imprisonment for a period of six years and ten months in a colony-settlement,» the release says.
On the thirteenth of November last year, the guardian of the laws was drunk driving a Nissan along the village of Staroshcherbinovskaya, “did not keep the necessary distance and, without slowing down, lost control”, as a result, he ran into a 47-year-old woman riding a bicycle in the same direction. As a result of the accident, she died.
According to the supervisory authority, the accused pleaded guilty and said he repented. In addition to the real term, he will be deprived of a driver's license for three years after his release. The verdict has not yet entered into force and can be appealed.