ances which excluded any physical or mental pressure on the part of police officers of the Manturovo police station".
The court considered the applicant's confession statements a mitigating circumstance.
11. The applicant and his lawyer challenged the judgment before the Supreme Court. They contested the admissibility of the evidence obtained as a result of ill-treatment and stated that the judgment was unsubstantiated as there had been no direct evidence of the applicant's guilt. They stressed that no expert examination confirmed that the victim had been killed by the pistol found at the crime scene and the court had failed to examine the applicant's allegation that this pistol had been taken from his home and had been planted at the crime scene.
12. On 26 June 2003 the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the judgment of 27 December 2002. It rejected the applicant's inadmissibility plea having referred to the first instance court's finding that the use of force had not been established.
B. Allegations of ill-treatment and investigation into them
13. After being questioned on 10 May 2001 the applicant felt unwell and lost consciousness, and was taken for a medical examination. The forensic expert recorded various injuries to the applicant's body including a suspected chest trauma with fractured ribs.
14. On next day, 11 May 2001, the applicant was escorted to the Manturovo Central Hospital. An X-ray examination did not show fractured ribs. The expert however reported two bruises on the applicant's body which had been inflicted by blunt objects not more than a day before the examination.
15. On 14 May 2001 the applicant's mother requested the Manturovo District Prosecutor to institute criminal proceedings against the police officers for alleged torture and to conduct a medical examination of the applicant. She also complained that the applicant's lawyer could not have access to him. On 15 May 2001 a similar complaint was submitted by the applicant's wife.
16. On 17 May 2001 the applicant was transferred to the SIZO and placed in the SIZO's medical unit as he had hypertonic crisis (severely reduced muscle function) and paraplegia - the applicant was unable to move.
17. On 29 May 2001, the Assistant Prosecutor of Manturovo District issued a decree refusing to institute criminal proceedings against police officers, having found that the applicant's injuries had been caused prior to his arrest. He referred to the applicant's written submissions, his medical record and statements of the lawyer P. that the applicant had not complained of ill-treatment, and concluded that it was in the applicant's interests "to discredit the police officers in order to avoid criminal responsibility".
18. On 1 June 2001 the forensic medical report indicated a bruise on the applicant's abdominal wall and several scratches, which had occurred more than ten days before the examination.
19. On 6 June 2001 the Deputy Kostroma Regional Prosecutor quashed the decision of 29 May 2001 and remitted the matter for further investigation. Questioned on 21 June 2001, the applicant explained that when he was arrested two police officers had severely kicked him. He complained that his mouth was taped and a gas mask put on him in order to shut him up. He also stated that he had written his confession statement in a break between the first and second beatings and suggested that the police officers had ill-treated him out of revenge for the murder of their colleague.
20. On 6 August 2001 investigator M. of the Kostroma Regional Prosecutor's Office, who had investigated the applicant's criminal case, again refused to institute criminal proceedings against police officers on the ground that there was no evidence that an offence had been com
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