Today Eduard Manukyan, the President of the Shirak Law Court, condemned Gevorg Tadevosyan who had burned Mari Davtyan, a mother to an 8-month-old infant, in a semibasement of the former building of Gyumri Polytechnic Institute to 13-year imprisonment.
Let us remind that this 51-year-old man burned the young woman as if to make his daughter, Alvardik, give up prostitution. Mari and Alvard were close friends who “did their job” in a dancing school located on the Gyumri station.
Gevorg Tadevosyan persistently didn’t plead guilty. The court re-qualified his deed today – since at first Gevorg Tadevosyan punched Mari and she fell, he thought the young woman was dead, so he took her to the Polytechnic Institute to cover up the crime, to burn the body. However, it turned out that Mari had fainted and Gevorg Tadevosyan actually burned a human being alive. So he was previously charged with causing accidental death, whereas now the court has re-qualified the crime, finding that he deliberately deprived the woman of her life.
Anyway, the court, taking into consideration that he had made a confession, had committed a socially dangerous act, had been convicted previously – he was condemned to 3-year imprisonment – held him responsible according to 3 articles of the Criminal Code; according to first sections of Articles 34 and 104, 11 years of imprisonment and according to the first section of Article 109, 2 years of imprisonment. The final verdict was 13 years of imprisonment.
By the way, according to the verdict, Gevorg Tadevosyan is slightly mentally retarded and the court found that he should be under neuropsychologist’s supervision.
Let us mention that 4 years ago a group of youngsters – her brother, her brother’s friend, her ex-husband and father-in-law – were condemned to imprisonment because of Alvard Tadevosyan, since they also burned a man alive in the same place – in the premises of the former building of Polytechnic Institute – ostensibly for making advances on her. And prostitute Alvardik (she is called so by her relatives), because of whom so many people have been imprisoned, walking into the courtroom today, happily congratulated her cuffed father, Gevorg Tadevosyan, on his birthday.
Nune AREVSHATYAN
