but the woman denied having received more money than before. When the money ran out, he laid a laptop in a pawn shop and wrote a statement about the theft (allegedly, the laptop was stolen on a train). For the false report, he was given a fine worth 4,5 million rubles. It was reported that he had been interviewed once for the case, but was too drunk to say anything. On November 28, 2014, near the village of Selets, Kulesh, while intoxicated, struck a 44-year-old saleswoman of a local store several times with an axe, taking the keys and, according to various sources, stealing between 5 and 8 million rubles, as well as alcoholic drinks, cigarettes, sausages and sweets worth another 8 million rubles. While leaving the store, he ran into the victim's son, who had already found the body of his mother in the woods thanks to a barking dog. Threatening him with a knife, Kulesh ran away and took a train to Baranavichy. The son of the murdered woman reported the criminal to the police, and Kulesh was detained on the train at Novoelnya Station. After the arrest, Kulesh began to cooperate and confessed to the double murder in the hope of replacing the death penalty with a life sentence: "I understood that I could not get away. They said that for the jury, a confession could be a mitigating circumstance. <...> Maybe in 50 years, I will see my daughter," he said at the trial. A judicial examination found that Kulesh suffered from an antisocial personality disorder, but was otherwise sane. Kulesh was tried under several articles of the Criminal Code of Belarus - for Attempted Crime, Murder, Theft and Robbery. In the pre-trial detention center, Kulesh visited a priest and a psychologist, and began taking antidepressants. In letters directed to Ivan, from his brother outside the center, much had been crossed out by the prison censor. The case was handled by the Grodno Regional Court, and on November 20, 2015, the court sentenced Ivan Kulesh to death. Kulesh's defense filed a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court of Belarus. Relatives of the convict, who had previously barely participated in the trial, questioned Kulesh's participation in the first two murders. The lawyer focused the attention of the Supreme Court on the fact that the double murder in Lida was disclosed solely on the testimony of the defendant,