During the hearing on October 15, the court granted the prosecutor’s request to question the secret witness via videoconference.
“Interrogate the witness at a court hearing in the Lychakivskyi district of Lvov via videoconference, provided that it is impossible to identify the witness,” the judge read out the decision after leaving the deliberation room.
The defense of Vyacheslav Zinchenko, a suspect in the murder of Farion, was against this, the media notes.
The appearance of the secret witness was commented on by the daughter of the murdered woman, Sofia Osoba.
“I want to thank in advance the secret witness, who showed his dignity as a man and was not afraid, because he was a “public orderly” [то есть Зинченко]“He’s probably shaking his knees a little that he’ll see him live, a secret witness who will tell everything about how he saw him in the forest belt,” she said.
At previous trials for Farion's murder, the court heard from public witnesses, including the victim's neighbor and a man who heard a gunshot and saw a man wearing a Panama hat and glasses running from the scene of the murder.
