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Ukrainian police have opened a murder investigation after the body of a lawyer and human rights activist was found in a river in the capital Kiev.

Iryna Nozdrovska, 38, went missing on 29 December. She had worked on the case of her sister, who was killed in 2015 by a car driven by the nephew of a Kiev judge.

The driver, Dmytro Rossoshansky, was jailed for seven years in May 2017.

Iryna Nozdrovska had allegedly received threats from him and his father.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ has not seen confirmation of those threats.

Her body was found in Vyshhorod district, a northern suburb of Kiev. (in Ukrainian) about her on 30 December on Facebook.

during an appeal hearing on 27 December.

According to Mr Nayyem, the threat was: "You'll come to a sticky end."

Rossoshansky's lawyer failed to have his conviction quashed at Wednesday's hearing.

He was intoxicated with drugs or alcohol when his car hit Ms Nozdrovska's sister, 26-year-old Svitlana Sapatinskaya, in September 2015.

on Tuesday, calling for the "murderer or murderers" to be found and for Ms Nozdrovska's young daughter to be protected.