In the confrontation, Defendant 2 testified that after they went in the forest to the place where Defendant 1 allegedly hid the money and arrived at the scene of the incident, the deceased asked again where the money was, and then "at this moment I turn to [Defendant 1] and I see that he is taking the sock out of his pocket, apparently there was some stone in the sock that he had taken earlier and hit him two or three times in the head, The deceased, may his memory be blessed, simply falls to the floor. He shouts at me 'catch him' and I'm panicking and scared, what he did I just caught him, and he continues to hit him in the head and kicks him... I grabbed him and he just fell on his stomach, and out of panic I just held his hands because he told me to grab him, hold on (unclear word)... I was so panicked he just fell to the floor, I'm almost sure... He just fell to the floor after he gave him the three or four (an unclear word)." When asked how he knew there was a stone in his sock, he replied that he assumed there was a stone, because when defendant 1 held the sock he was pulled down and there was something inside it. When asked why he had to hold the deceased and if he objected, he replied, "As soon as he fell to the ground, from the pressure [Defendant 1] told me, 'Catch him so he won't run away,' I don't know..."; He later added that he grabbed the deceased out of fear that he might run into the car, take the gun and kill them. According to him, defendant 1 continued to beat the deceased, searched for him with his pockets, took out the car keys and told him to open the car so that the deceased could be put into it (P/8A, pp. 34-35).
When he was told that he had skipped a stage and asked if he had hit the deceased while holding him, defendant 2 replied that it was not at the stage when he was holding the deceased, but at a later stage defendant 1 told him to kick him because "he told me that he started breathing, he told me that he thought he was alive and he told me to start kicking him because I was afraid, He told me before this that I had to do everything he told me," adding that "as soon as [the deceased] fell to the ground... He tells me, 'From now on, whatever I tell you to do, you do, if you don't do it, I'll kill you.'" According to him, apart from once or twice he kicked the deceased in the head, on the orders of defendant 1, he did not give the deceased any more blows. In response to the interrogators' questions, he replied that in the incident he was injured in the hand and leg, when the blows to the left hand were caused by dragging the deceased, and the blow to the leg from the kick that defendant 1 instructed him to kick him in the head; When he was told he had bruises on both hands, he replied, "No problem. The moment he fell to the floor, I just pulled him and there were stones and all kinds of things on the floor, and that's what caused me cuts in my hands." When he was told that he had another injury to the back of his head, he replied that he did not know what caused it. To the question of why he kicked the deceased when he was already neutralized and they began to drag him, he replied that defendant 1 told him to do so and he was afraid of him; When asked what he wanted to achieve by doing so and what the result of the kicks was, he replied that after the kicks the deceased was already dead, but immediately added, "Even before I kicked him, I think he was dead"; to the question of why he kicked him if he was already dead, he replied again that he had done what defendant 1 had told him and was afraid that he would kill him. At this point, defendant 1 remarked that defendant 2 had said that the deceased was breathing, to which he replied, "You said he was breathing"; and to the question of how he came to sleep with him if he was afraid of him, he replied that he was afraid that he would do something to him, since he had threatened his life and therefore he did everything he told him to do (ibid., pp. 35-38, 45).