STAVROPOL, May 4 (RIA Novosti) - A 20-year-old man in southwest Russia's Stavropol Territory has been charged with murdering his girlfriend's allegedly abusive brother by burying him alive in a local cemetery.
A senior investigator told RIA Novosti that the suspect, from the territory's Kirov Region, had found out that the man had been beating his sister and their mother.
The sister's boyfriend is then believed to have driven his alleged victim to a local cemetery, tied him up and buried him alive in a one-meter deep pit.
Medical experts have determined that the deceased suffocated.