Story By: Feza Uzay, Sub-Editor: Marija Stojkoska, Agency:  Newsflash

A Turkish schoolteacher who admitted to burying a beautiful young woman dancer half his age when she died after sex with him has walked free after a court decided there was not enough evidence to convict him of a crime.

The 54-year-old man claims that he paid the young woman for sex and woke up to find her dead in his bed, at which point he panicked and decided to bury the body instead of calling the police.

Ahmet Oguz Ozgur had been taken into preventive custody in the Turkish city of Antalya over the death of 23-year-old Belarusian national Anastasiya Yazerskaya in March last year (2020).

However, he was acquitted by the court and released without charge due to “insufficient evidence”, as reported in local media yesterday (20th September).

His acquittal came despite the prosecutor in the case having requested life imprisonment.

The victim, who had been in Turkey for 15 months, was last seen getting into the secondary school teacher’s car on the night of 8th March last year.

In his statement to the police, he said he woke up in his house the next morning and found the victim with blood coming out of her nose.

He said he tried to revive her and that he panicked when he realised she was dead, so he buried her body in a makeshift grave.

He told the police officers he had paid the victim money in exchange for sexual relations.

A post-mortem on the victim’s body found no evidence of assault or force, leading to the charge of murder against the suspect eventually being dropped.

In his court hearing, the suspect repeatedly denied killing the victim and said his only crime was not calling the police or an ambulance at the time.

His lawyer, Merve Can Harcola Dogan, has welcomed the court’s decision.