Lawyer Yakubov: the court sentenced Bashkirova to five years in prison in a colony-settlement 
Lawyer Albert Yakubov, representing the interests of transition in Moscow Valeria Bashkirova, commented on the sentence passed on her. According to him, the 18-year-old student reacted calmly to the court's decision, Izvestia writes.
According to Yakubov, the girl reacted quietly and calmly to the decision, since “she was counting on a real term, given the resonance of the case” … The lawyer also disclosed the details of the verdict: the civil claims of the victims were satisfied in part. In favor of each of them, the court exacted two million rubles from Bashkirova.
“Five years of imprisonment in a penal colony. We have ten days to make a final decision: will we appeal or not, ”concluded Yakubov.
Earlier it became known that 18-year-old Valeria Bashkirova was sentenced to five years in prison in the Solntsevo District Court. In addition, she will be deprived of her driver's license for 2.5 years. The prosecutor's office previously asked the defendant to be imprisoned for six years and deprived of a driver's license for three years.
On July 16, Bashkirova hit three children while driving a Mazda. They crossed the road with two adults on an unregulated crossing. As a result of the collision, two children died in the hospital. Bashkirova was under house arrest, but later the investigation asked the court to send the girl to a pre-trial detention center. On October 7, the court extended this preventive measure for her.