Epress.am News from Armenia
Ararat-based Volodya Muradyan, the husband of 35-year-old Diana Nahapetyan who brutally stabbed his wife to death in winter, 2014, was sentenced on December 24 to 3 years and 6 month in prison by Ararat and Vayots Dzor first instance court judge Gagik Sargsyan, Society Without Violence NGO reported Thursday.
Prosecution had earlier dropped the charges of particularly violent murder envisaging up to 20 years or life in prison and motioned to the judge to charge Muradyan with affective murder instead. Authorities believe the results of a psychological evaluation carried out by Elda Grin, psychologist and legal expert, are convincing and that Muradyan was in an unstable mental state, i.e., under "cumulative effect," when he committed the crime. Nahapetyan's family, however, disagrees with this evaluation, claiming that the defendant was sane and his consciousness was not completely clouded over when he murdered Diana