A court in Kemerovo sentenced 25-year-old Vladislav Kanyus to 17 years in prison for the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend Vera Pekhteleva, Kommersant reports . The murder took place in January 2020. The court found that Pekhteleva caused at least 111 injuries and bodily harm.
As reported in the press service of the Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) for the Kemerovo region, the defendant was accused of committing crimes under paragraph "d" part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed with special cruelty) and part 1 of Art. 127 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal deprivation of a person's freedom).
The murder occurred when the defendant's ex-girlfriend came to him to collect her belongings. As the investigation and the court established, the defendant, having learned about Pekhteleva’s new relationship, did not let her out of the apartment, took her phone, and then beat her “using various objects, inflicted several stab wounds and squeezed her neck with a cord.”
Neighbors, who heard the girl's screams, tried many times to call the police, but the call squad never arrived.
In relation to the police officers who did not organize the departure of the defendant's neighbors in January 2020, a criminal case was initiated under Part 2 of Art. 293 (negligence, negligently entailing the infliction of grievous bodily harm or death of a person). It is considered in the Zavodskoy District Court of Kemerovo, five people are accused of it.
On July 26, a 17-year-old girl was brutally murdered in Novosibirsk, whose mother, since November 2021, filed complaints with the police against her ex-boyfriend Khushnud Khamroev three times, but the police refused to open criminal cases, and as a result, Khamroev killed the girl. Now the parents of the victim accused the police of inaction, and the Investigative Committee promised to conduct an investigation.
In the statements, the mother wrote that Khamroev was threatening her daughter with murder, and in one of the statements it was reported that she had been injured.
Khamroev stabbed Rakova to death on July 26 in front of passers-by. The murder was filmed by the video recorder of one of the passing cars. The girl tried to run away from the killer, but he caught up with her and stabbed her multiple times. In total, investigators counted 15 stab wounds. Rakova died before the ambulance arrived. Khamroev managed to escape and was later detained. A criminal case was brought against him under the article "Murder".