Charge Pressed against Husband for Wife's Murder
Preliminary investigation of the criminal case initiated on 30 year-old woman’s death was completed in the Investigative Division of Ajapnyak and Davtashen administrative districts of Yerevan Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee. Charge was pressed against the victim’s husband.
The call on the woman's death, born in 1986, was received on March 3, 2017; a call was received from “Armenia” medical center informing that the resident of one of the houses of G-1 district of Yerevan, born in 1986, with diagnosis of «Polytrauma, unconscious condition» was taken to them from the same house. Some days later – on March 7 the injured woman died of the injuries she had sustained in medical center without regaining consciousness.
The husband announced that his wife had fallen from the stairs of the second floor in the result of which she sustained the mentioned injuries.
A criminal case was initiated in the Investigative Division of Ajapnyak and Davtashen administrative districts of Yerevan Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee on causing the young woman to commit suicide according to the Article 110 of RA Criminal Code, investigatory hypotheses were worked out and investigatory actions of great volume were conducted to find the real circumstances of the woman's death. Inspection of the site was conducted, samples were taken, the clothes that the victim was wearing at the moment of the incident were confiscated, a number of people were questioned.
Forensic medical, forensic chemical examinations, as well as forensic biological and forensic trace complex examinations were commissioned to find a number of circumstances significant for the criminal case.
As a result, evidence were obtained on the allegation that the 30 year-old woman did not commit suicide but sustained the injuries incompatible with life in the result of infliction of numerous injuries to her vital organs by her husband.
Pursuant to the actual data obtained through the criminal case, the 30 year-old woman lived in the mentioned house together with her husband and during their life together they had had arguments over different domestic affairs. On the day of the incident the spouses again had an argument during which the husband used violence against wife, hit her for numerous times on her vital organs with blunt hard items. Then overcoming the wife's resistancethrew her to the basement floor of the house inflicting injuries incompatible with life.
On the base of the obtained evidence charge was pressed against husband according to the Part 1 of the Article 104 of RA Criminal Code. Detention was chosen as a pretrial measure against him.
The criminal case with the bill of indictment was sent to the prosecutor supervising the legality of preliminary investigation of the criminal case.
Note; Everyone charged with alleged crime offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.