Radovan Veljović, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for rape committed in May 1992 in the area of Foča, was sent to serve his sentence at the beginning of July.
Veljović was found guilty of raping the victim A-1 in the village of Điđevo in mid-May 1992 after she was taken out of a house. As the Council found, he ordered the victim to go with him to another house, where he raped her while holding his hand on her throat, and then threatened to kill her if she told what happened.
With the same verdict, the Council partially accepted the injured party’s request for compensation for the mental pain suffered and ordered Veljović to pay her 32,000 marks after the verdict becomes final.
“Convicted Radovan Veljović began serving his prison sentence on July 10, 2023,” the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina answered for Detektor.
During the appeal against the first-instance verdict, the Prosecution requested from the Appellate Panel that Veljović be sentenced to a higher sentence, while the Defense filed an appeal due to significant violations of the procedure, criminal sanctions, wrongly established factual situation, and violations of the Constitution and the European Convention, with the explanation that the first-instance verdict was based on illegal evidence.
The Appellate Panel rejected the appeals of the State Prosecutor’s Office and the Defense as unfounded and confirmed the first-instance verdict.
