MOSCOW, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Three Russian men on Monday were convicted of murdering a man in Russia's Far East in a homophobic hate crime, prosecutors said.
The victim, a 29-year-old the defendants believed to be gay, was beaten and stabbed to death in the Kamchatka region in May, RIA Novosti reported.
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The defendants, ages 26, 22 and 18, then put the body in a car doused with gasoline and set it ablaze, prosecutors said.
They were sentenced to between nine and 12.5 years in jail.
