YEREVAN. - Armenia’s Court of criminal Appeals should have cast a verdict for Ioannis Sarkissov on Tuesday, who had beaten his wife Zaruhi Petrosyan to death. The session was postponed till December 27.

Sarkissov was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for beating his 20-year-old wife to death. His lawyer appeals the decision claiming that Zaruhi committed a suicide by drinking poison.

Armenian News-NEWS.am earlier informed that Sarkissov was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment for cruelly beating his young wife. During the trial Sarkissov did not plead guilty.

Sarkissov’s lawyers are claiming that she had drunk poison, while the forensic examination revealed she was killed as a result of beating.