St Petersburg: A court in St Petersburg has convicted a prominent history professor on charges of murdering and dismembering a female student and sentenced him to 12½ years in prison.

The court found 64-year-old Oleg Sokolov, who taught at St Petersburg State University, guilty of shooting and killing 24-year-old doctoral student Anastasia Yeshchenko at his apartment in November 2019.

Oleg Sokolov, a history professor at St. Petersburg State University, was known for participating in re-enactments of historical battles. Credit:AP

Sokolov was detained after being pulled from the Moika River outside his St Petersburg apartment with a backpack with two severed arms inside.

The limbs were identified as Yeshchenko’s, and investigators found other body parts in the river and in Sokolov’s apartment in the historic part of St Petersburg, less than two kilometres from the Hermitage Museum.



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