The Criminal Court of Istanbul has sentenced Murad Nazaryan to life imprisonment for killing an elderly Armenian woman, Ermenihaber.am reports, quoting the Turkish Haberler.com.

The Court also ruled to apply to the Prosecutor’s Office of Istanbul with a request to detect other participants of the crime.

The lawyer of the defendant insisted that not all facts had been revealed and demanded to clear Nazaryan of charges. The culprit also pleaded not guilty.

Maritsa Kucuk, 85, was brutally killed at her home in Istanbul in 2012.