A Moscow City Court jusry has found Mikhail Orekhov guilty of killing Fr Victor Betancourtone, one of the two Jesuits who were found dead in a Moscow apartment last year.Orekhov had been originally charged with committing both murders, Interfax reports.
The investigation insisted that Orekhov had also killed Fr Otto Messmer, but the jury found Orekhov not guilty of this crime.
The jury also ruled that Orekhov did not deserve clemency.
"The investigation has determined that Orekhov decided to murder Betancourt while being intoxicated on the basis of a personal conflict, after the victim had tried to induce the Russian to commit a joint sex act," the Investigative Committee said earlier.
The investigation believed that the purpose of the other murder was to conceal the previous one and that Orekhov killed Messmer when the latter returned from Germany to the apartment where Betancourt had been murdered, Interfax says.
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