A court in Novosibirsk announced a verdict in the case of a 33-year-old local resident. He was accused of torturing two people and killing his young stepson.

The man was sentenced to 20 years in prison with a restriction of freedom for a period of 1.5 years to be served in a high-security correctional colony. Earlier it became known about the arrest of a St. Petersburg woman who was accused. of murdering her eight-month-old daughter.