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Dinko Valchev in 2015, when he was arrested for the brutal murder. PHOTO: ELENA FOTEVA
Sentenced to 18 years in prison for brutal murder near Burgas, he disappeared and was declared wanted throughout the country.
He was convicted in the first instance
at 18 years in prison, but was released
generally with a guarantee of
BGN 1,000 in June last year
On Thursday, the defendant Dinko Valchev did not appear at a hearing at the Burgas Court of Appeal, which is hearing the case against him in the second instance.
The first Valchev, who made a living by raising sheep near the village of Izvorishte, was sentenced to death by Aytos Behchet Ismail, 47-year-old animal trader. The sentence was handed down on June 16 last year, but instead of being behind bars, the court set him a bail of BGN 1,000 due to good procedural conduct, according to an inspection by a journalist. This angered the prosecution and they immediately protested. A month later, on July 16, the Court of Appeals imposed the most severe measure of “detention in custody.” However, when the Judicial Security agents went to pick up Dinko at the specified address, he was no longer there. The killer, who has been banned from leaving the country, has since disappeared. Thus, Dinko Valchev became another fugitive from justice, while his case is in the stages prior to the final sentence. Similarly, the Galevi brothers, Brendo and many other bandits fled, prompting legislative changes. The last idea is that those convicted in the first instance are left without documents, which can be replaced by temporary ones and with those who cannot leave the country.
The brutal murder of Behchet took place on March 20, 2015 in the Perchemliata area, near the town of Izvorishte in Burgas. There Dinko had a sheep farm. Aytos Behçet Ismail’s animal merchant came to buy lambs, but a scandal broke out between the two over the price of the merchandise. Dinko swung a metal bar and landed it with all his might on Ismail’s head. After making sure that the beaten man showed no signs of life, the pastor tried to move the body, but failed. He tied his legs with a rope to one of his cars and took the body to a home a few meters from the crime scene, near one of the empty barns on the estate.
To erase the traces of the murder, Dinko doused the dead Behcet with gasoline, covered him with car tires and set them on fire. The bonfire with the human body burned all night. As the merchant’s corpse burned, Dinko didn’t blink, he cut the body and chassis of the car Ismail arrived with. In the morning he went to the human bonfire to see what had happened to the body. Only the skull, larynx and part of the torso remained. The killer loaded the remains, tires and ashes of the home and dumped them in a temporary landfill in the far northeast of the Banevo district. Suspicions that some of the murdered man’s entrails were eaten by sheepdogs remain to be proven during the investigation. The case began to unravel 3 months later when workers found human remains in the landfill.
Meanwhile, the police are working hard to find Aytos’s wanted Behçet. A unique DNA examination of a handful of charred bones in Austria solves the case. This is the same laboratory where part of the expertise was performed in the case of the Belneyski sisters’ deaths, recalls the supervising prosecutor in the Georgi Chinev case. The case at the Burgas Court of Appeal was considered yesterday in absentia. According to the magistrates, there is no evidence that the accused has left the country.
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