Belgrade flat: two bodies, two handwritten letters
The bodies of T. P. (52) and G. P. (48) were found in a flat on Pedje Milosavljevica Street after the building manager called police. The Interior Ministry ordered autopsies.
Police found two bodies in a flat on Pedje Milosavljevica Street in the Belgrade neighbourhood of Bezanijska kosa on Saturday, August 1, 2026. The dead are a brother and sister, T. P. (52) and G. P. (48), who lived in the same flat. Officers arrived around 3.45 p.m., after the building manager called them about a strong smell coming from the flat.
Serbia’s Interior Ministry, the MUP, confirmed only two things: that two bodies had been found in a flat on Bezanijska kosa, and that the on-site investigation was under way. No formal classification of the case has been issued.
What officers found in the flat
According to the findings at the scene, the woman had severe head injuries and the man had cuts to his neck. Unofficially, the bodies had been in the flat for more than five days. Neighbours had not seen either of them for several days before the discovery.
Neighbours told police they had heard nothing unusual. That is why the alert came a week late, and came because of the smell rather than because of noise or an argument.
What the two letters say
Two separate handwritten letters were found in the flat. One is attributed to the woman, the other to the man.
The letter attributed to the woman states her consent for her brother to end her life, and refers to illness and poverty. The letter attributed to the man mentions being followed and serious personal troubles. Neither letter has been released by police.
Authorship will be settled by handwriting analysis. Until that report lands, the letters are an indication rather than evidence.
What the autopsy decides
Both bodies have been sent for autopsy. The exact cause of death will be known only after the report, and the legal classification depends on it. A murder followed by a suicide is the working assumption of investigators, not a position taken by the prosecution.
If that assumption holds, there will be no prosecution. Under Serbian law the death of the perpetrator bars criminal proceedings, so the file closes without a trial. What remains is establishing the facts in the pre-trial stage.
Does the victim’s consent change anything?
Not in the way it is usually assumed. Consent does not remove the unlawfulness of taking a life. Serbia’s Criminal Code does recognise a lesser offence, mercy killing, which applies when the act is committed out of compassion towards a gravely ill person who seriously and explicitly asks for it. Assisting a suicide is a separate offence.
The line between those offences and an ordinary homicide is not drawn from a letter. It is drawn from the autopsy findings, medical records and the sequence of injuries. The on-site investigation on Bezanijska kosa is the first step in that process, not its conclusion.
The case is with the competent public prosecutor’s office, which will decide the formal classification once the expert reports are in.
