Gheorghe Dinke, accused of murdering two teenage girls from Caracal – Alexandra Machesana and Luiza Melenko – was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Friday. The decision of the Olt court in this case is not final.

In addition, according to the verdict, Gheorghe Dinke is obliged to compensate the families of the two young women in excess of 700,000 euros in moral damages.

The trial in the Caracal case ended in the first instance in the Olt court in June this year, three years after 15-year-old Alexandra Machesanu called 112 to report that she had been abducted from the street and asked for help.

Gheorghe Dinke was tried for the kidnapping and murder of Oleksandra Macesana (15 years old) and Luiza Melenko (18 years old). He was referred to the DIICOT court for human trafficking, trafficking of minors, aggravated murder, rape and abuse of corpses.

The Olt court on Friday announced the sentence: 30 years in prison for Gheorghe Dinke is the maximum sentence he could receive, given that he was 69 years old. In similar situations, the prosecutor’s office asks the court for life imprisonment, but in this case, the criminal law does not allow this because of Dinke’s advanced age.

The verdict can be appealed within 10 days.

Dinka is currently in Craiova prison.

The case of Caracal

Alexandra Machesanu left her home in Dobrosloveni commune on July 24, 2019, to meet a friend in Caracal. Disappeared, the next day the girl called 112 from Gheorghe Dinke’s house, but the police waited until the morning to enter his yard. In Dinke’s yard, investigators found a metal barrel under which there were ashes and fragments of calcified human bones. The case has drawn attention to the disappearance of Luiza Melenko, an 18-year-old young woman who was also last seen in Caracal on April 14, 2019, when she was taken “on the spur of the moment”, like Oleksandra.

DIICOT Prosecutors Details: How Gheorghe Dinka Allegedly Kidnapped and Killed Alexandra and Luiza

The Caracal case was brought to trial ]on January 15, 2020 by DIICOT prosecutors who charge Gheorghe Dinke with 8 crimes: aggravated murder, abuse of corpses, human trafficking, trafficking of minors and rape. Prosecutors describe in the indictment how Dinke kidnapped and killed two girls aged 15 and 18 – Oleksandr Mecheshan and Luiza Melenko. In addition, Stefan Risipiteanu was sent to court on charges of raping Luisa in Dinke’s house.

Prosecutors describe how Gheorghe Dinke kidnapped two young women he picked up in a car “on the spur of the moment”, then drove them to his house in Caracalla, where he raped and killed them, before burning their bodies in the same metal barrel in the house’s yard.

Chronology of events presented by prosecutors

• “On 14/04/2019, around 11:30 in the morning, in the radius of Caracal municipality, Olt district, the defendant DG (Gheorghe Dincă – nr) observed the victim of MLM (Luiza Mihaela Melencu – nr), aged 18, who was waiting in a place called “Widow ” and through deception, abduction and coercion, expressed in physical and verbal abuse, the defendant recruited her (using a false pretext, in the sense that he offered to transport her “for a while”), as a result of which the victim voluntarily got into his car, on the right rear seat.
• In order to strengthen the victim’s conviction about the reality of the statement, the defendant drove her to the entrance to Dioshti commune, where he stopped and, using physical and verbal violence, immobilized the victim, tying her with a belt from his pants, from the rear seat belt.
• Later, the defendant took the victim by car to his home in the municipality of Caracal by abducting the victim against her will, who protested and screamed for help because she could not get out of the car because she was tied to herself. seats, and the doors and windows could not be opened from the inside due to the changes made by the defendant.
• While traveling in a car, the accused threw the victim’s mobile phone into the vegetation on the side of the national road E 70. The accused hid the victim between 14 and 17.04.2019 (in his house in Caracal) with the help of coercion, which turned out to be physical and verbal violence, keeping her permanently chained to a bed with a metal chain, tied to the eyes with an adhesive plaster, and to the hands and feet with a rope/sticky tape, for the purpose of sexual exploitation for selfish interests, which, according to the law, amounts to the crime of “trafficking in human beings”.
• During the same period, on the basis of one criminal resolution, by means of coercion, expressed in physical and verbal violence, the defendant G. D. repeatedly entered into sexual relations with the victim MLM, 18 years old, during one of these significant acts committed during the day. 14.04.2019 after 12.00 the defendant R.Sh. (Stefan Risipiteanu – no). In his indictment it was stated that on 04/14/2019, around 12:00, he unexpectedly arrived at the house of the defendant D.G. in Caracal, during which he surprised him when he pulled into the yard of the house with his car and noticed that she was caught in the car on the main victim of MLM. Under these circumstances, the defendant R.Ş. asked him to allow him to have sexual relations with the victim, and as a result of the consent expressed later by the defendant D.G., during the same day, through coercion, expressed in the form of physical and verbal violence, he maintained relations with the MLM victim.
• According to the results of the investigative actions carried out in the case, it was established that on 04/17/2019, as a result of refusing to submit to such degrading treatment and repeated rape, the accused G. D. deliberately inflicted numerous strong blows with his hands on the vital parts of the victim MLM. on the body, namely the head and chest, while she was immobilized (tied to the bed), the blows that led to her death. Later, having ascertained the death of the victim, in order to conceal the crime of qualified murder, he burned her body in a metal barrel, which he had in the yard of his residence. Ashes, bone fragments and other remains formed as a result of the burning process were transported and left among the vegetation, most likely on 04/18/2019 at the edge of the forest located on the territory of the Karakala Agricultural Research and Development Station.
• In the same protocol it was also stated that on 07/24/2019, around 10:00-10:15, being in the radius of Dobrosloveni commune, Olt county, the defendant D.G. noticed the victim of MMA (Alexandra Mihaela Macheshanu – nr), aged 15 , and by misleading, and later by abduction and coercion, expressed in physical and verbal violence, recruited her under false pretenses in the sense that she offered to transport her in her own car, “on occasion”, to Mihai Vytyazul High School in Karakal municipality.
• The defendant forced the victim into the right rear seat of his car, and then, to reinforce his belief of the reality of what he claimed, he drove him to the area of ​​Caracal High School, where he stopped and, using physical and verbal force, immobilized him her, tying her pants belt to the seat belt on the back seat.
• The defendant took the victim by car to his house in the municipality of Caracal (by kidnapping, against the victim’s will, who objected and screamed for help), she could not get off because she was tied to her back. the seats, and the doors and windows could not be opened from the inside due to the changes made by the defendant. On the way, he threw away the victim’s phone in the area of ​​Strandului Street in the municipality of Karakal.
• On July 24 and 25, 2019, the accused hid the victim in his home by means of coercion, expressed in the form of physical and verbal violence, keeping her chained to the bed, blindfolded with adhesive tape, and her hands and feet tied with rope. /sticky tape for the purpose of sexual exploitation in one’s own interests, which, according to the law, is part of the crime of “trafficking of minors”.
• On the same days, the defendant D.G., on the basis of one criminal resolution, through coercion, expressed in the form of physical and verbal violence, repeatedly entered into sexual relations with a 15-year-old victim of MMA, knowing that the young woman was a minor. The investigation established that on 07/25/2019 around 12:00, after calling the family of the minor victim, in order to make sure that she left the territory of Romania voluntarily, the defendant returned home, where the victim of MMA was captured.
• Noticing that she managed to untie the chain that tied her to the bed, remove the tape from her eyes (not being able to free herself from the thick rope around her legs) and that she was holding an old phone found in the room with a completely changed attitude ( the minor victim called SNAU 112 several times, from the phone found in the accused’s room), also impressing the victim with her categorical refusal to submit to degrading treatment and repeated rape, with intent, inflicted at least one punch on her. in the head area and when she was lying on the ground, strangled her with both hands, causing her death.
• Around 1:00 p.m., after committing the crime of aggravated murder against a minor MMA victim, in his house in the municipality of Caracal, in order to hide the new crime he had committed, he burned the victim’s body, placing it in the same metal barrel that he had in the yard of his house and which he also used in the case of the previous victim.
• Ashes and remains of bones were found in this barrel on the morning of 07/26/2019 at 06:00 during a search of the house conducted by the prosecutor’s office near the Caracal court.”

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