The Malča barber introduced himself to the girl as “Bojan from Niš”.

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Details of the cruel treatment of the maniac were revealed yesterday during the sentencing of the Malča monster.

– On December 20, he kidnapped the girl through deception and threats with the intention of having sexual relations with her – explained Judge Tamara Savić during the pronouncement of the historic verdict of life imprisonment.

As she said, the Malča barber caught up with the girl in Brzi Brod around 7.25 am in a “point” car and invited her to get into the vehicle. The girl turned him down and said we shouldn’t, and then introduced himself to her as “Bojan de Nis, the new electrician at her school.”

– He asked the girl to show him where the school was, so she tricked him into getting in the car. When he realized they weren’t going to school, he told her that they had taken a shorter route. Shortly afterwards, she told her that she had been kidnapped “because her father stole a diamond from a Niška Banja’s grandmother” and that she “would have to be with him until he returned it.” It was then that he threatened for the first time to kill her parents if she did not listen: the judge read the details of the accusation to the hairdresser Malčani, for which he was found guilty.

When he took the girl to the first cabin where he hid and abused her, she tried to escape. However, according to the indictment, the Malča barber hit her on the head and cut off a lock of her hair.

– Until December 29, in different territories of Nis, Svrljig and Knjazevac, to which they reached on foot, he abused, beat and threatened the girl with killing her parents. To scare her off and discourage her from asking for help, he told her that the people they met along the way were bad. He cut her hair several times, and while he was hiding her in Orešac, the girl tried to defend herself by attacking him with a brick, but he prevented her – Judge Savić read, adding that Jovanović was conscious the whole time. Of his works.

Tears and a hug from the victim’s parents

As the judge read the details of the indictment to explain why he sentenced her to life in prison, the girl’s mother wiped away tears.

At the time when Ninoslav Jovanović was sentenced to a single life sentence for kidnapping and raping a girl, the victim’s parents embraced in the courtroom.

Jovanović was sentenced to 11 years for the kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl, while he was sentenced to life imprisonment for prolonged rape, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment as the sole punishment.

This is the first life sentence since the adoption of the Penal Code amendments in May 2019. Under the new law, life in prison threatens all rapists and murderers of children.

He’s already spent half his life behind bars

By the way, Jovanović spent half his life in prison for various crimes. He even spent 22 years behind bars for rape, attempted rape, but also robbery and fraud.

He was first sentenced in 1996 to ten years in prison for rape and fraud. Then he raped a girl and a 14-year-old girl. Since he was released on parole in 2005, after 9.5 years in prison, he has repeated the criminal acts: he raped a 12-year-old girl from Nis and tried to rape another from Gornja Vrežina, who had previously cut her hair with scissors. Even then a helicopter and search dogs were used to pursue it.

He was sentenced to 15 years in 2006, but was released in early January 2018, after serving 12 years, after the Supreme Court reduced his sentence on appeal.

In October of the same year, he was arrested again on charges of harassing and harassing women and minors through social media. In March 2019, he was sentenced to five months in prison in Belgrade for sexually harassing women through social media, while he was acquitted of the charges for the other two acts of persecution. Since his time in detention was included in the sentence, he was automatically released.

In court, Jovanovic admitted that the girls’ haircuts made him sexually aroused. Psychiatric experience determined that he was not mentally ill, but had a psychopathic personality structure. The expert neuropsychiatrist’s assessment in the 2006 trial was unequivocal: there is a high probability that he will repeat the crime as soon as he is released.

You have 15 days to appeal, but not to receive parole

In other words, according to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the hairdresser has a period of 15 days after being notified of the verdict to lodge an appeal with the Nis Court of Appeal against the verdict. If this happens, the Appeal Panel is made up of three judges, who must consider whether the appeal is well founded and then decide whether to reject it or return it to the court for retry. The Court of Appeals does not have a deadline to make a decision, but case law shows that when it comes to detention cases (Jovanović has been in custody since his arrest), the decision is made as soon as possible, sometimes 15 days after presentation of the appeal.

If Jovanović does not file an appeal, that is, if the second instance court (Court of Appeal) determines that the law was followed, Jovanović will be sent to a prison cell that will be his home for the rest of his life after he the verdict is final.

There is no right to parole, because the Penal Code stipulates that rapists, pedophiles, murderers of children, do not have the right to parole and that they must serve sentenced prisoners every day.

How?

The law states that all those who have been sentenced to life imprisonment (and who have not committed aggravated homicide) after 27 years can apply for parole. After that, it is up to the court to decide whether to accept that request. When assessing whether the convict will be released on parole, his conduct while serving the sentence will be taken into account. A person who has been sanctioned twice while serving his sentence may not be released on parole. However, that will not be the case for rapists and pedophiles who were released after serving two-thirds of their sentence, because they lost that opportunity with the reforms to the law.

This means that the Malča barber, but also all those who commit rapes, sexual relations with a defenseless person, sexual relations with a child, as well as sexual relations with abuse of charge, will have to put up with convicted prisoners every day.