Russian private investigators on Friday charged a rap artist’s widow with his murder after uncovering his dismembered body.
Detectives claimed they discovered pieces of the body of Ukrainian rap artist Alexander Yushko, that performed under the phase name Andy Cartwright, in a flat in the northwestern city of St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
The Investigative Committee, which probes significant criminal offenses, claimed that the head looked like a ticket photo of the target.
” The better half of the victim has been restrained. She has actually currently been charged,” it claimed in a declaration, including that the charge was murder.
The press solution of St. Petersburg’s branch of the Investigative Committee validated to AFP that the declaration, which did not provide names, described the rap artist’s widow Marina Kokhal.
Kokhal declared that she reduced up the rapper’s body after he passed away from a medicine overdose due to the fact that she wanted to safeguard his track record, neighborhood media reported, citing sources close to the investigation. She called authorities numerous days later.
Investigators stated that the pair had actually quarrelled and the rap artist’s partner caused his fatality “in such a way not established.”
” Then to hide traces of the criminal activity, the female … cut up the body of the target into separate body get rid of the goal of later ruining them,” the detectives stated.
REN TV network reported that first examinations located no traces of drugs in the rap artist’s body.
The 31-year-old performer took part in rap battles in the city run by an organisation called Versus Battle.
The organization on its web site calls him a “Ukrainian below ground rap entertainer” understood for “vivid metaphors and complicated rhymes.”
He published frequently on Instagram, most just recently a picture of a tattooed bicep. Fontanka.ru regional news web site reported that his widow remained to update his social media sites after his death.
The previous tsarist funding understood for its art galleries and ballet was lately rocked by an additional similarly grisly criminal activity.
A reputed chronicler who instructed at one of the city’s universities, Oleg Sokolov, is presently on trial for killing his young lover and severing her body.
He was arrested in 2015 after being carried out of a freezing river drunk with a knapsack containing her arms.