(Reuters) – A Russian court in Vladivostok slightly cut the sentence of U.S. soldier Gordon Black who was jailed last year after being found guilty of stealing $113 from his girlfriend and making threats to kill her, Russian agencies reported on Monday.
Russia’s RIA and TASS state news agencies, citing court proceedings, reported that the court cut Black’s sentence to three years and two months. Black was sentenced in June of last year to three years and nine months.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
