MOSCOW, October 8 (RAPSI) – A court in Russia’s town of Ryazan has sentenced a 21-year local citizen to 19 years in penal colony for killing a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and his wife, according to a statement of the Investigative Committee’s press service.

The court found that the accused Maxim Kuprin was in want of money, entered the pensioners’ apartment under the pretext of household goods sales and killed the victims.

After the murder, the defendant stole money and other assets of the spouses worth about 18,000 rubles ($230) and left the scene. The victims’ bodies were found by their relatives the same evening.

Initially, Kuprin denied his involvement in the crime but lated confessed.