An Irkutsk ex-prisoner who was doused with alcohol and set on fire by the deputy head of the colony will receive compensation of 70 thousand

The Sverdlovsk District Court of Irkutsk recovered 70 thousand rubles from correctional colony No. 6 of the Irkutsk region as compensation for moral damages in favor of former prisoner Vasily Davydenko, who was supervised by the deputy head of the colony, Sergei Panyutin. Open Russia wrote about this on Thursday with reference to Davydenko’s lawyer Stanislav Khromenkov, who collaborates with the Public Verdict Foundation.

Davydenko told human rights activists that on March 1, 2014, he was detained near IK 272/6 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation in the Irkutsk Region. Administration officials suspected a former convict, who had previously served a sentence in this colony, of intending to transfer a package containing a mobile phone and plastic vials of alcohol into the colony territory.

After this, Davydenko was taken to the territory of the colony, where he gave an explanation. The detainee claimed that he was supposed to give the package to a friend upon meeting, but did not intend to transfer it to the territory of the colony.

“After this, the colony staff, threatening the man with rape, beat him, including using a plastic bottle. Davydenko was forced to drink one of the bottles of alcohol, while they doused him with flammable liquid and set him on fire,” describes the crime. the Public Verdict

As a result, with numerous burns and injuries, Davydenko was taken to City Clinical Hospital No. 3 of Irkutsk, where he was treated for more than a week. According to human rights activists, immediately after the incident, not only the accused employee, Sergei Panyutin, quit the colony, but also the head of the security department.

A criminal case was initiated against Panyutin, which went to trial. However, during the trial, the accused died : in July 2014, Panyutin was found dead in his apartment, death was the result of a traumatic brain injury.

The court was forced to dismiss the case due to the death of the defendant, but human rights activists and the victim filed a claim for compensation for moral damages against the treasury of the Russian Federation and the colony itself. Based on the results of the consideration of the claim, the court determined the amount of compensation at 70 thousand rubles.

“The amount of compensation is disproportionately small compared to the harm caused to the plaintiff and the suffering suffered. In addition, it is now unclear whether the court satisfied our demands to the colony, assessing the beatings and arson of the convict himself, or only punished the employees who did not stop their boss at the time of the commission of the crime for inaction. This will become clear after receiving a reasoned court decision,” lawyer Stanislav Khromenkov, who represented Davydov’s interests, told Open Russia.