A Bourgas court heard on April 7 the appeal against the sentence given to Maxim Staviski and would rule on the case within one month, Bulgarian news agency (BTA) reported.
Bulgarian two-time world ice skating champion Staviski was sentenced to two years and six months suspended sentence in January 2008, with a five-year probation period, for causing the death of a man and seriously injuring a girl in road accident on the Black sea coast on August 5 2007.
Staviski was driving under the influence of alcohol.
He was also sentenced to pay compensations amounting to about 180 000 leva to the victims’ families and court expenses after pleading guilty to all charges.
Prosecutors appealed against the sentence, demanding an effective imprisonment sentence and higher damages. The father of the seriously injured teenager Manuela Gorsova, who has been in a coma since the collision, demanded the same. The relatives of Petar Petrov, who died in the collision, asked for higher damages, but did not challenge the suspended sentence,BTA said.
