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Stabbed him in his bed: life imprisonment for an apartment owner in Haifa who murdered his sub-tenant - Walla! news

2022-05-03T08:25:11.889Z


Haifa District Court sentenced Victor Jirnov, a resident of Haifa, to death by stabbing his apartment partner and his co-tenant, Pavel Orlov, 44. According to the indictment, he attacked Orlev due to a financial dispute over payment of rent


Stabbed him in his bed: life imprisonment for an apartment owner in Haifa who murdered his sub-tenant

Haifa District Court sentenced Victor Jirnov, a resident of Haifa, to death by stabbing his apartment partner and his co-tenant, Pavel Orlov, 44. According to the indictment, he attacked Orlev due to a financial dispute over payment of rent

Yoav Itiel

03/05/2022

Tuesday, 03 May 2022, 10:27 Updated: 11:19

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Haifa District Court today (Tuesday) sentenced Victor Zernov, 62, of Haifa, who was unanimously convicted of premeditated murder in the aggravating circumstances of his sub-tenant Pavel Orlov, 44, to life in prison.

The incident took place in May 2019 in his apartment in the Halisa neighborhood of the city.



"The murder left his family in mourning and pain and to this day has not recovered," said the tribunal's father, vice president of the court, Judge Avraham Elyakim, who noted the victim's sister who appeared at all hearings and that "her injury is very evident."

He also noted that two of his children did not get to know him and will not win important stages in their lives. "



In addition to the life sentence, the judges ruled that Zernov would also pay the remaining maximum compensation of NIS 258,000." My mother could not come.

It was very difficult for her, but she wanted to give her thanks to the judges, "said the nurse Miri to judges Avraham Elyakim, Ronit Bash Tamar Neot Perry.

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"He's dead, but do not tell": The rent dispute that ended in a shocking murder

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Pavel Orlov murdered in Haifa (Photo: courtesy of the family)

Zhirnov lived in a rented apartment, Apartment 5 on the third floor of the shared building at 40 Jordan Street in Haifa.

Pavel Orlov, who was then separated from his girlfriend with whom he shared an apartment in another area of ​​the city, lived in the rented apartment of Gyrnov for about two months.

He sleeps in the bedroom and Jernov sleeps in the living room.

According to the indictment, a dispute arose between the two against the background of Orlov's refusal to change Girnov's apartment, as he did not pay his share of the rent.



The indictment states that the two were alone in the apartment, Zhirnov equipped himself with a large kitchen knife in the kitchen, went into the bedroom, where Orlov was sleeping at the time, stabbed him in the neck with a deep stab, twisted the blade while cutting and then cut his left cheek with the knife.



According to the indictment, Zhirnov then pulled Orlov out of bed, who was bleeding profusely, and dragged him down the hallway of the apartment to near the front door.

There, he laid him on his stomach with his face to the floor, handcuffed his hands behind his back using two handcuffs he fastened together, put his head in a garbage bag and put his feet in a garbage bag and the prosecution claims all this to ensure and verify his death.

The murder in Haifa, 2019 (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

It also appears that around 6:15 PM that day, neighbor Ruslan Spaniev noticed Zhirnov leaving his apartment with his legs full of blood.

Girenov told him he was injured, but Spaniev looked inside the apartment and saw a man tied with his face on the floor.

Zhirnov told him: "You have not seen anything."

But then he said, "He's dead, but do not tell anyone, help me hide him."



Spaniev walked away and called the police on his cell phone, who arrived at the scene shortly afterwards, arresting Zhirnov near the building when blood was on his shoes, pants and shirt.

He immediately told police officers involved in his arrest that he had murdered his friend and he was in the apartment.

After a few minutes they did locate Orlov's body in the apartment.

The MDA team called by the police had no choice but to determine Orlov's death on the spot. His body was sent that night to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in Abu Kabir.

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