Shame, ridicule, scorn and humiliation - this is how the family of Mitko from Tsalapitsa defines the sentence of Rangel Bizuryev. 15 years in prison for the murder of 24-year-old Dimitar Malinov was given to the accused in his death. The victim's relatives insisted on life imprisonment, and after hearing the verdict, the tension in the courtroom escalated.
Mitko's mother Atanaska Bakalova once again expressed her outrage at the verdict to NOVA. "The sentence for intentional murder cannot be 15 years. Judge Stanislava Bozeva removed "special cruelty" from the indictment. We are talking about burying a person who was unconscious, but no forensic doctor can say exactly when he died. The sentence should be life imprisonment. The recordings show very clearly - the fatal blow was inflicted by Borislav Dinkov, the fight was between him and Rangel Bizyurev," she is categorical.
Bizyurev will have to serve his sentence under an initially strict regime. According to the court, the murder was intentional, but not committed in a particularly cruel and torturous manner. He was sentenced to pay the mother of the murdered Dimitar Malinov compensation of 130,000 leva, as well as 400,000 leva in blood money to other relatives of the victim. The court's decision can be appealed within two weeks.
According to her, there is testimony from a secret witness from November 2023.
''On July 26, 2023, the twins were captured. At first they denied being involved, later changed their versions, and finally confessed. After the 24-hour arrest, they went home, for 4 days they were without charges. Then the protests began. They had time to get an international passport and hide evidence. The recordings from a camera in a kindergarten and a bookstore near the scene of the murder were not removed. I found them two months after the murder, the investigators could not. If it weren't for the protests, neither Bizyurev nor the twins would have been captured at all. The chronology from the chat application in which Mitko wrote to them could have been requested," explained Atanaska Bakalova.
Rangell Bizyurev himself admitted to the beating, but denied having inflicted the fatal blow and stated that his goal was not to kill Mitko. His lawyer claims that the crime was committed out of carelessness.
We recall that at the end of October, a panel of the Plovdiv District Court sentenced the twins Borislav and Valentin Dinkovi, accused of hiding as helpers of Rangel Bizyurev, to three years of imprisonment in an initial general regime. And in March, the Plovdiv District Court handed down harsher sentences. The two were found guilty of helping Rangel Bizuryev hide after the murder of 24-year-old Dimitar Malinov.
The magistrates increased the sentence imposed on each of the defendants to 3 years in prison. The first will have to serve 4 and a half years, and the second - 4 years.
According to the investigation, Mitko was killed after an argument with Bizuryev on the night of July 20, 2023, and then with the help of the twins Borislav and Valentin Dinkovi - buried near the village under construction debris.
Mitko's body was found after days of searching, and the twins were quickly revealed as helpers and arrested. However, Rangel Bizuryev managed to flee the country and after several months of searching he was captured in Denmark and extradited to our country.