The cause of death of the 28-year-old woman, killed in Shumen on Sunday, is strangulation. This is shown by the autopsy report prepared by a medical examiner, district prosecutor Orlin Kuzdov announced at a briefing, quoted by BTA. He announced that the cuts on the woman's neck and wrists were inflicted after her death.
Supervising prosecutor Yana Nikolova added that the 31-year-old man charged with the murder will be assigned a psychological and psychiatric examination. "According to the data we currently have, it concerns interpersonal relations between partners, the likely reason for the murder is jealousy,", she explained.
The 31-year-old man has been charged with causing death in a particularly painful way for the victim, prosecutor Nikolova added. The punishment for this crime is 15 to 20 years in prison, life in prison or life in prison without parole, prosecutor Kuzdov said.
The report of the serious crime was received shortly before 4:00 p.m. on Sunday in the duty unit of the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Shumen. According to the initial version, a friend of the deceased is suspected of the crime. A few hours after the report was filed, the man was detained for up to 24 hours at the police station in the city, and then he was prosecuted by the District Prosecutor's Office – Loud about a murder committed in a particularly painful way for the victim.