“The court ruled that Oleg Valerievich Sokolov should choose a preventive measure in the form of two months of detention - until January 8, 2020,” TASS judge quotes Yulia Maksimenko as saying.
Earlier, Sokolov was charged with the murder of Yeshchenko.
According to the preliminary version of the investigation, an associate professor of SPSU Sokolov shot postgraduate student Yeshchenko on November 7, and on the night of November 9 decided to get rid of the body and dismembered it. On the morning of November 9, Sokolov, with a backpack in which were severed female hands and a traumatic gun, was lifted from the water near the Moika embankment. Divers have not yet been able to find the girl’s body.
Lawyer Alexander Pochuev reported that his client Sokolov intends to ask the court to send him to a pre-trial detention center.
The Kremlin called the act of insanity the murder of a girl as an assistant professor at St. Petersburg State University.