"Sokolov is accused of committing a particularly serious crime, which cannot be connected with the deprivation of liberty," RIA Novosti quoted the investigator as saying at a meeting of the Oktyabrsky District Court in St. Petersburg, at which the issue of choosing a preventive measure to Sokolov was being decided.
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 said that his client Sokolov, a suspect in the murder of the girl, intends to ask the court to send him to jail.
The Kremlin called the act of insanity the murder of a girl as an assistant professor at St. Petersburg State University.