Drinking companions become criminal and victim

A 22-year-old man who killed his friend during a booze-up was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment. He will also have to pay 100,000 lei damages to the victim's family. The prosecutors consider the punishment is too mild and intend to appeal the decision to a higher court, Info-Prim Neo reports. The young man who stabbed his friend is a resident of Comrat town. In order to hide his crime, the attacker buried the body near the Ialpug River and took his mobile phone. He hid the knife and sent anonymous SMS messages to the victim's father and his friends in the name of the killed friend. Another two men aged 48 and 23 were sentenced to 10 and, respectively, 12 years in prion for beating a drinking companion to death. The three drank alcohol together. At a certain moment, the victim was accused of stealing a mobile phone and a bottle of brandy. The men beat him cruelly, took him out and left him in the street. He died in the hospital in several days.