30 August 2012

A panel of three EULEX judges in the District Court of Mitrovica found S.H. guilty for the criminal offence of murder and sentenced him to 13 years of imprisonment.

S.H. was charged with the murder of B.S. in August 1997 in Mitrovica. He was then tried in absentia in 1998 by what was then the District Court of Kosovska Mitrovica. After a request for protection of legality by the defence counsel, the Supreme Court ordered a retrial in the case.

The defendant pled guilty during the retrial and the trial panel accepted his guilty plea. The panel found that S.H.’s guilty plea was corroborated by the documentary evidence and the witness statements.

The case was prosecuted by a EULEX district prosecutor.