The appeal in the case of Yulia Kiseleva, convicted in a fatal car crash, continues. Her lawyers seek a delay in punishment, citing her three year old daughter. The victims relatives want a harsher sentence and disagree with the 3.5 year colony settlement term. The article reviews the crash and key facts, from the Mercedes speed to the expert report confirming drunk driving.

The court proceedings in the high-profile case against Kiseleva are not yet over. The lawyers of Yulia Kiseleva, who was convicted in the fatal traffic accident, are demanding a postponement of her sentence. As a reminder, on January 14 the Oktyabrsky District Court handed down a sentence to the daughter of an Irkutsk City Duma deputy — 3.5 years of imprisonment to be served in a settlement colony.
Kiseleva’s defense does not agree with this sentence. Even during the court debates, they asked for a suspended sentence or a postponement for their client. Now, in their appeal submission, they have again asked for a postponement to be applied to the culprit of the fatal crash, since she has a 3-year-old daughter.
The wives of the men who died also disagree with the verdict. Immediately after reviewing the documents, they filed an appeal, demanding a much harsher punishment.
– We lost our beloved husbands, and our families lost their only breadwinners. The children are still waiting for their dads to come home; they don’t understand. I even had to take my son out of Irkutsk just to somehow distract him from this horror, — Veronika Matveeva, the widow of the deceased head of a construction company, admitted.
As a reminder, the accident occurred on the night of July 27, 2015. Yulia, at enormous speed, crashed into a Toyota Highlander SUV that was standing at a red light, which after the impact collided with two cars. Behind the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz was the daughter of City Duma deputy Zhanna Eseva and the chief physician of City Clinical Hospital No. 10, Sergei Esev. In this accident, police lieutenant colonel Albert Sokolov and construction company head Denis Matveev were killed. Medical examination proved that Kiseleva was drunk at the time of the accident.
ONLY THE FIGURES:
3 volumes in Yulia Kiseleva’s criminal case.
6 forensic examinations were conducted by investigators.
20 people were questioned during the investigation.
160 km/h was the Mercedes’ speed during the accident.
1.8 per mille of alcohol was found in Kiseleva’s blood.