A teenager in west Russia has been sentenced...
The boy involved was named only as Mikhail S., aged 15, from a small village in the Zhiryatinsk district of the Bryansk Region. He confessed that he had attacked his 55-year-old mathematics teacher Valery Smeyanov after the latter had given him bad marks and confiscated his mobile phone during a lesson.
Smeyanov"s body was discovered on February 12 in a river under a bridge in the boy"s home village of Knyavich.
Investigators determined that Mikhail had hit his teacher twice in the back of the head and then thrown him off the bridge into the water below, where he died. Before doing so, the teen stole 2,000 rubles (just under $70) from his teacher"s pocket.
Police were led to Mikhail by a tip-off, and also by one of Smeyanov"s notebooks, in which the teacher had written that a student had stolen money from him.
Mikhail fled after the killing and was discovered by police in the regional capital of Bryansk. He confessed after questioning.