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London court on Tuesday, August 23, sentenced four Russian students to long terms of imprisonment, finding them guilty of gang raping classmate from Malaysia. As reported by The Daily Mail, jury verdict of guilty of the royal court of London Vulich made unanimously. 22-year Norayr Davtyan court found guilty of two rapes and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Slightly less time – nine years – received 23-year-old Gregory Melnikov, which the judge found it guilty of one rape and one attempted rape. The role of two other accused in the rape – 23-year-old Oleg Ivanov and 19-year-old Armen Simonian – the court considered less severe, and sentenced each of them to eight years in prison. During the trial, all four defendants refused to plead guilty. The incident of rape took place January 23 fellow student at a private college Bellerbys, where Russian students studying English. According to investigators, the young people had a party, which turned out to be a student from Malaysia. Girl gone too far with alcohol (and according to most of the victim, she even poured something into a drink) and stayed in the room Davtyan. At night, young people have decided to take advantage of the helplessness and classmate raped her. As proof of the charge resulted from recording cameras, which show, as a citizen of Malaysia came into the building in the company of students from Russia. In addition, the process of abuse of girl young men shot on a mobile phone camera. According to investigators, the girl was raped twice, students – in between the young people out for a smoke. According to British tabloid, at sentencing court took into account the special cynicism with which Russians mocked classmate. The behavior of the accused to the crime the judge compared the video with singing soccer fans at the match, when a favorite team scores a goal. According to RIA Novosti, extenuating circumstances in favor of Ivanov and Simonian are positive features, the absence of their account of sexual crimes in the past, and that defendants in rape condom. The agency, the Russians will spend in prison, only half of the appointed time, rest, following established practice, they will under the supervision of the authorities. The issue of deportation of Russians to their homeland, according to the judge, is not in his jurisdiction. The corresponding solution can only accept the Minister of Internal Affairs of the UK.
