Murder suspect commits suicide

  • 2009-01-08
  • TBT Staff in cooperation with BNS
RIGA - One of the men that has been accused of murdering four people in the eastern-Latvian town of Rezekne has committed suicide in his jail cell.

The31-year old man was found dead in his cell at 6 p.m. on Jan. 7 when apolicemen was on a round, police representatives told The Baltic News Service. The man had hanged himself in rope made of abedsheet.

He had left a death note in which he has confessed about his participationin the murder and asks for forgiveness.

Four men had been found stabbed to death in an apartment in Rezekne onJan. 3. According to the initial version, there had been anargument during a drinking bout, after which four men were killed.

On Sunday two men aged 31-34 were detained, both of them having previouscriminal record.

The police has launched a criminal procedure on an aggravated murder, andthe crime carries a life sentence.