MOSCOW, June 18 - RAPSI. The prosecution demanded on Monday that the Moscow City Court give a 7.5-year custodial sentence to Denis Voloshin for committing murder on ethnic grounds.

Voloshin and two unidentified individuals attacked two people of non-Slavic appearance and stabbed them at least five times in a Moscow park a year ago.

One victim died and the other managed to escape.

“The prosecutor has asked the court to declare Voloshin guilty of murder and sentence him to 7.5 years in prison,” according to the court's press service, which added that the sentence will be passed on June 20.

At the time of the crime, Voloshin was a minor. Thus, he cannot be sentenced to more than 10 years.