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Defendant death

Wednesday 16 June 1993 23:02 BST
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One of the men accused of the execution of two Russian envoys in London has been found hanged from a knotted sheet in his prison cell. Mkrtitch Martirossian, 30, was discovered at Belmarsh prison, south London, on 7 June, Marlborough Street magistrates were told. His co-defendant, Gagic Terogannsyan, 33, was sent for trial at the Old Bailey.

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