2 Convicted For Latvian Tourist's 2018 Rape-Murder In Kerala
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The accused were found guilty based on circumstantial evidence and the court will on December 5 pronounce the order on the sentencing.
A local court in Kerala today convicted two persons for raping and murdering a Latvian woman tourist who went missing in 2018 from Kovalam near Thiruvananthapuram.
Thiruvananthapuram Sessions Court convicted the accused Umesh and Udayan under various sections of the Indian Penal Code including rape and murder of the 33-year old Latvian tourist, who had gone missing under mysterious circumstances from Kovalam on March 14, 2018.
The accused were found guilty based on circumstantial evidence and the court will on December 5 pronounce the order on the sentencing.
"The body was found after 38 days and in a decomposed state due to which we lost a lot of biological evidence but the police were able to build a case based on circumstantial evidence and the prosecution was able to successfully prove it in the court," the prosecutor told the media.
