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about his person."After cutting his victim"s head off, the attacker, with the help of his friend, took the corpse to a local dump," the prosecutor"s statement said.
Yegorov was given a 12-month suspended sentence.
The court handed out its sentence on the day that Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev used his annual Police Day address to remind police chiefs that officers should point their weapons at criminals, and not aim them at law-abiding citizens.
There have been a number of murder cases in 2009 involving Russian police officers. The most high-profile case saw a southern Moscow district chief kill three people and injure two during a supermarket shooting spree in April.
"Department chiefs who take people on and hand out IDs and weapons must understand that these weapons should be pointed only in the direction of criminals, and not aimed at peaceful citizens," Nurgaliyev said.
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