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The prosecution asks the historian Sokolov to the 15 years of the colony
The prosecution asks the Petersburg historian, the former assistant professor of St. Petersburg State University Oleg Sokolov to 15 years in a maximum security colony on charges of murder of Anastasia Yshchenko and the illegal acquisition of ammunition. The online broadcast of the court session was held in YouTube.
Before the debate of the parties, Oleg Sokolov once again admitted to the murder of graduate students Anastasia Eshchenko, but stated that he did not consider the murder intentional. According to Sokolov, he committed the murder in a state of loss of control.
"If this can be called intentional, let it be intentional. For me it is an absolutely spontaneous gesture, absolutely uncontrolled," Sokolov said.
The prosecution believes that Sokolov has not committed "any spontaneously planned crime." Sokolov "was not going to commit any suicide," after the murder he made two calls, did not cancel the meeting with his friends and asked a friend to withdraw money to “hide, use the money,” the prosecutor’s office said. The accusation insists that the court must sentenced the historian "exclusively to the real deprivation of liberty."
- The murder of a graduate student of St. Petersburg State University of Anastasia Eshchenko occurred on the night of November 8, 2019. She was killed in the apartment of historian Oleg Sokolov, with whom she lived in the center of St. Petersburg.
- The historian was caught from the Moika River along with the backpack, in which the investigators discovered the remains of the girl. Sokolov later admitted that he killed and dismembered Eshchenko, but at one of the meetings he refused to answer the question of his guilt in the murder.