“On Monday, my client should be transferred to a pre-trial detention center,” Pochuev said.
He added that Sokolov is currently in a temporary detention center, he has no complaints.
On November 11, the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg decided to detain Sokolov in the murder case of Yeshchenko.
The man was charged with murder.
According to the preliminary version of the investigation, Sokolov shot Yeshenko 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, an associate professor of St. Petersburg State University was picked up from the water near the Moika embankment with a backpack in which severed female hands and a traumatic gun were found.