Story By: Amelia Guran, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
Video Credit: CEN
A bartender in a Moscow pub who killed a drunk customer by strangling him when he refused to pay a bill has been jailed for eight years.
Video footage of the incident shows the drunk man wearing a rucksack heading behind the bar and being confronted by the waiter, and then later attempting to leave but just as he gets the door open, being grabbed and pulled back inside by the bartender.
The pair then fall to the floor, and the scuffle begins in which the annoyed barkeeper attacks and strangles the drunken customer, apparently unaware of his own strength.
When he realises what he has done, he is then seen having lifted up the man shirt and desperately attempting to reanimate him without success.
The footage was captured on CCTV cameras at the Harat’s Pub bar in central Moscow, and it has now been confirmed that the barkeeper will have spent eight years in jail in a statement released by the senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Moscow, Julia Ivanova.
She said: “Today, a court sentence sentenced him to eight years in prison with payment of compensation.”
The murder occurred in a pub on Zemlyanoy Val Street in the south-eastern segment of Moscow’s circular Garden Ring road.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the bartender must pay one million RUB (12,500 GBP) in compensation and another 260,000 RUB (3,255 GBP) for the funeral of the deceased.
Online commentators supported the decision to jail the bartender, with ‘Alex Cronev’ for example saying: “God, because of alcohol, to kill a man. If he didn’t pay, call the police, but why kill? You also ruined your life and that of your family. That’s what it means to not think with your brain.”
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