![]() ![]() ![]() A real estate agent reported that Petrov had paid a contractor to build a tunnel down to the sea from another home he had owned in the area. They seemed to have a lot of money, and to spend it in unusual ways. He and his family were clearly Russian, but their passports were Greek. It wasn’t long before police began to wonder about Gennady Petrov. The watchdog said it spoke to women who described being choked, beaten with wooden sticks and metal rods, burned, raped, pushed from balconies and having their teeth knocked out.To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm iPhone app. In a October report titled "I Could Kill You and No One Would Stop Me", Human Rights Watch said that Russian women were especially vulnerable in the face of domestic abuse. Supporters helped her buy an expensive modern prosthetic device. 'Then he saw my text exchange with a (male) colleague'. 'I filed for divorce,' said the distraught woman who had two children, aged three and four, with her violent husband. ![]() Margarita had told journalists her ex-husband did not want to bleed her to death, hoping to get away with a short prison sentence.ĭoctors managed to save one of her hands after police found her left limb in the forest. Investigators say Grachyov, who claimed his wife was unfaithful, had carefully planned the crime buying an axe, tourniquets, bandages and iodine. Russian ex-spy victim of attempted murder with nerve agent: UK police Just days before he hacked off her hands police dismissed her complaints about his violent behaviour. Grachyov abducted his wife after the Russian authorities decriminalised some forms of domestic abuse such battery in a move that drew criticism from rights groups. Margarita Grachyova who had her hands chopped off with an axe by her jealous husband has been pictured smiling and wriggling a finger after surgeons reattached one of her hands. "I will have to live with this for the rest of my life," she said in televised remarks.ĭomestic violence is common in Russia and often goes unpunished but the young woman's ordeal shocked the country. "No sentence would bring back my hands," said the woman, who has endured multiple surgeries. Margarita, 26, said she had wanted her ex-husband to be given life in prison.Ĭannibalism: Russian couple 'killed and ate 30 people' He was earlier stripped of custody of their two children. The man was also ordered to pay more than 2 million rubles ($30,000) as compensation for moral damages. ![]() Margarita Grachyova (right), 25, had her fingers crushed before her arms were severed at the wrists in a jealous rage by her spouse Dmitry (left), 26, a trained psychologist at their home near Serpukhov, in western Russia. On Thursday, Grachyov was sentenced to 14 years in a high-security penal colony, said a spokesperson for a court in the town of Serpukhov, located some 100 kilometres south of Moscow. Last December, after dropping off their two children at daycare, Dmitry Grachyov took his wife Margarita to a forest outside Moscow where he tied tourniquets around her arms and chopped off her hands with an axe.īefore hacking off her limbs he cut off her fingers.Īfter that he drove the bleeding woman to a hospital, giving medics a shoebox containing her severed right hand. PHOTO COURTESY: MAIL ONLINEĪ Russian man, who chopped off both of his wife's hands with an axe after accusing her of infidelity, was sentenced on Thursday to fourteen years in prison following a huge outcry in Russia. Before the attack, Margarita had told friends of their close relationship and said she wanted to stay with him and celebrate their wedding anniversary. ![]()
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