MOSCOW (Reuters) -- A Russian court has sentenced a man to 14 years in prison for murdering a Roman Catholic priest in a drunken attack.
The trial failed to establish who killed another priest in the same Moscow apartment.
The court sentenced Mikhail Orekhov for the murder of Victor Betancourt, a Jesuit priest from Ecuador, in an apartment in one of Moscow's most exclusive districts last October.
Otto Messmer, a Russian of German origin who led the country's Jesuits, was killed there two days later after returning from a foreign trip.
Reading out the sentence after the closed trial at a Moscow court, Judge Oleg Gaidar said the jury had found Orekhov guilty of murdering Betancourt but acquitted him of the other killing.
The court ruled "to sentence [Orekhov] to 14 years in a high-security prison," Gaidar said.
"The probe found that Orekhov's criminal intent to kill Betancourt emerged when he was in a state of alcoholic intoxication, on the grounds of hostile personal relations after the victim tried to seduce the Russian into engaging in sexual intercourse," the prosecutors said in a statement.
Prosecutors said last year that the door to the priests' apartment had been found open but there were no signs that property had been stolen.
The closed-door trial gave no other details to the public.
The trial failed to establish who killed another priest in the same Moscow apartment.
The court sentenced Mikhail Orekhov for the murder of Victor Betancourt, a Jesuit priest from Ecuador, in an apartment in one of Moscow's most exclusive districts last October.
Otto Messmer, a Russian of German origin who led the country's Jesuits, was killed there two days later after returning from a foreign trip.
Reading out the sentence after the closed trial at a Moscow court, Judge Oleg Gaidar said the jury had found Orekhov guilty of murdering Betancourt but acquitted him of the other killing.
The court ruled "to sentence [Orekhov] to 14 years in a high-security prison," Gaidar said.
"The probe found that Orekhov's criminal intent to kill Betancourt emerged when he was in a state of alcoholic intoxication, on the grounds of hostile personal relations after the victim tried to seduce the Russian into engaging in sexual intercourse," the prosecutors said in a statement.
Prosecutors said last year that the door to the priests' apartment had been found open but there were no signs that property had been stolen.
The closed-door trial gave no other details to the public.