The Kharkiv Court of Appeals has refused to mitigate punishment for Olena Zaitseva, accused of an accident, which killed six people in October 2017, and cancel the sentence of the trial court and close the criminal proceedings against the other accused, Hennadiy Dronov.
“Remain the appeals of the lawyer, defense attorney Perepelytsia (Dronov’s lawyer Serhiy Perepelytsia) and the accused Zaitseva without satisfaction,” according to the resolution part of the ruling of the panel of judges announced by presiding Volodymyr Protasov.
Thus, the verdict of the court of first instance regarding the selection of a maximum term of punishment (10 years in prison), provided for by the article the accused are charged with, remained unchanged.
At the same time, the court partially satisfied the complaint of Zaitseva’s lawyer Yulia Pletneva regarding payments on civil claims of the victims.
Earlier that day, Pletneva asked the court to mitigate punishment for her client and sentence her to five years in prison while depriving of the right to drive vehicles for two years, and also to select a trial period at the discretion of the court. She also believed that compensation for damage to the victims should not be joint, as indicated in the judgment of the trial court, but shared.
Perepelytsia asked to cancel the verdict of the court of first instance and close the criminal proceedings against his client.
As reported, on February 26, 2019, the Kyivsky District Court of Kharkiv found Dronov and Zaitseva guilty and sentenced both to the maximum term of imprisonment provided for in the article (10 years each) and deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for three years.
Zaitseva and her lawyer Yulia Pletneva, as well as the other accused Hennadiy Dronov and his lawyer Serhiy Perepelytsia filed appeals against the verdict of the Kyivsky District Court of Kharkiv.
