Second attempt to put in jail: scandalous verdict of an official’s son in the case of a woman’s death appealed against
22 August 09:30
The office of the Prosecutor General filed an appeal against the sentence of the Vladimiretsky district court in the case of 27-year-old Yevgeny Pavlishin, who in 2022 beat up a 64-year-old vacationer at his own campground, after which she died. Prosecutors consider the suspended sentence imposed by the court inadequate to the gravity of the crime, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports.
The court of first instance sentenced Yevhen Pavlishin, son of the first deputy mayor of Varash and former head of the Rivne nuclear power plant, to two years in prison, but released him from serving his sentence with probation. According to representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office, such a decision does not meet public expectations of justice in the fatal case.
The law enforcers will insist in the appeal instance on the imposition of real imprisonment for the convict, emphasizing that a lenient punishment could create a dangerous precedent of impunity.
The beating at the Kholodok campground
The incident occurred in June 2022 at the recreation center “Kholodok” in the village of Rudka, Varash district. A mother and her adult daughter came to relax, having rented a cabin from the owner of the tourist base.
According to the investigation, drunk Eugene Pavlishin for unknown reasons attacked the vacationers, brutally beating both women with fists and feet. the 64-year-old woman received multiple injuries to the head and body.
According to “Ukrainian News”, the man beat the women because of the comment that he was doing his natural needs in an inappropriate place.
The victim was immediately hospitalized in serious condition. Doctors fought for her life, but the woman never regained consciousness. A few days later she died of head injury and internal injuries.
At first, the police qualified the incident as premeditated murder, but later the charge was unexpectedly reduced to medium severity of injuries. This decision raised suspicions of influencing the course of the investigation.
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Contradictory decision of the local court
The verdict of the Vladimiretsky district court caused a wave of indignation among the public. The judges qualified Pavlishyn’s actions only as intentional bodily injury of medium severity, despite the death of the victim.
“Ukrainian News” writes: the verdict states that the death occurred not as a result of beating, but because of a “fall in the hospital room”, where the victim hit her head. And the injuries inflicted by Pavlishin were allegedly non-fatal.
In addition to a suspended sentence, the court ordered the convict to pay the relatives of the dead woman only 50 thousand hryvnias of moral compensation each. This amount was also criticized as disproportionate to the loss of human life.
Accusations of corruption and pressure
Meanwhile, there is a popular belief that the Pavlishyn family influenced justice in this case – the father of the accused used his official position to “withdraw” his son from criminal responsibility.
On the TG-channel “Just Varash” they claim that Evgeny Pavlishin was known in Varash as a “city terrorist” since his youth.
According to them, after the woman’s death, the director of the local hospital, who is “Pavel Pavlishin’s personal kuma,” actively created the right version of events. The hospital allegedly played “a show for the investigation and the public,” spreading a version of the accident.
The sharpest accusations concern the expert examinations:
“Three exhumations in a row to get the ‘correct’ conclusions of the forensic examinations. More than $400,000 was spent to bribe experts, prosecutors and judges.”
At the same time, activists claim:
“Even during one of the exhumations, an official forensic expert who was present during the autopsy confirmed that there were four hematomas on the body of the deceased, not one, as written in the fake documents.”
The channel also blames the police and the prosecutor’s office:
“The police clearly knew the names of witnesses, but deliberately did not add them to the case file. The investigation was delayed, qualifications were changed, and evidence disappeared. The regional prosecutor’s office acted solely in the interests of the Pavlishins. The courts were deaf-blind to facts and evidence.
Now, after an appeal from the Office of the Prosecutor General, the case will be considered by the Court of Appeal, but the details are still unknown.
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