Napoleon professional who beheaded lover desires jail launch to battle for Putin

A professor who murdered and beheaded his pupil lover is pleading to be launched from jail to battle within the Russia/Ukraine battle so he can “atone in blood”.

Army historian and internationally-acclaimed Napoleon professional Oleg Sokolov, 68, shot and dismembered his lover Anastasia Yeschenko, 24, throwing her severed physique components within the Moika River in St Petersburg.

He was jailed for twelve and a half years however is looking for to affix a scheme which permits freedom to killers, rapists and different critical criminals in trade for combating on the entrance.

Sokolov – who taught at St Petersburg [formerly Leningrad] State College, Putin’s alma mater, the place his sufferer was a PhD pupil – is now a librarian in his strict regime jail, and provides historical past classes to fellow inmates.

The assassin and his sufferer would costume up for Napoleonic reenactments. He had beforehand lectured on the Sorbonne however was stripped of his French Legion of Honour award.

His lawyer Alexander Pochuev mentioned: “He’s asking to be given the correct to atone with blood for the crime through which he admitted guilt.

“He believes that, regardless of his age, he’s able to benefiting our nation and the military. We’ll proceed to battle for his sending to the [war].”

Thus far he has been turned down however Russia seems determined to spice up troop numbers because it comes underneath strain from Donald Trump to agree a deal to finish the battle.

He confessed to capturing lifeless the coed and earlier than butchering Yeschenko’s physique, he held a cognac get together with associates as her corpse was stashed underneath a mattress within the subsequent room.

Sokolov mentioned he suspected her of dishonest on him and have become violent when she instructed him she meant to go to a buddy’s birthday celebration, in keeping with proof within the trial.

He was caught when he was discovered within the icy water of the Moika River attempting to eliminate his lover’s arms – chopped off on the shoulder – which have been in his backpack.

Yeschenko’s severed head was discovered wrapped in an IKEA plastic bag in his plush house, whereas her dismembered torso and legs have been all dredged from the river.

She had enraged him by “insulting” his daughters by a earlier relationship, he mentioned.