“The court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention,” RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.

On the evening of December 9, the body of a girl born in 1998 with multiple stab wounds was found in the entrance of a residential building on the territory of New Moscow.

On suspicion of committing a crime, the brother of the murdered woman, born in 2001, was detained in the apartment of which smoking mixtures were found.

Evening Moscow also wrote that a suspect in a murder case 19 years ago was detained in Smolensk.