Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Yuri Yanovsky, accused of murdering and dismembering a transperson, to 1 year and 10 months in prison. The man was released from custody, taking into account the time spent in the pre-trial detention center. This was reported by the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg.
Yuri Yanovsky. Photo: Facebook
During the process, the court reclassified the charge from murder (Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) to excess of self-defense (Article 108 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
On January 13, 2020, Yanovsky, while intoxicated, quarreled with a 24-year-old trans person. According to Sever.Realii*, the victim's name was Jamshud Khatamjonov, she came to Russia three years ago from Uzbekistan.
The convict claims that she wanted to slip him sleeping pills and rob him. During the quarrel, Yanovsky stabbed the transperson twice in the neck and once in the stomach, causing the victim to die on the spot.
According to the information of the regional publication 47news, on June 15, 2020, a student of a St. Petersburg school called the police and said that he saw a part of a human body in the Mga River. A little later, the police pulled a man's torso out of the water without arms, legs and head. Upon examination of the body, breast implants were found, by which the identity of the murdered woman was established.