A native of Uzbekistan, Gulchekhra Bobokulova, who killed a four-year-old girl in 2016, will be deported from Russia to her homeland after compulsory treatment, the Interior Ministry said.

However, as Bobokulova's lawyer Sukhrob Sayfutdinov told RT, the date of the possible discharge of his client is still unknown and is a medical secret.  

“I personally turned to the head physician of the Kazan Psychiatric Hospital, where Bobokulova is currently undergoing treatment, and I, by virtue of the law on medical secrecy and personal data of the Russian Federation, could not receive any answer there.

I was not given any information about the expected date of Bobokulova's discharge, ”said Sayfutdinov.

The medical institution where Gulchekhra Bobokulov is being treated, refused to comment on RT information about her possible discharge.

"The issue will be resolved in the prosecutor's office"

Recall that a woman was sent for compulsory treatment in 2016 after the brutal murder of a four-year-old girl. 

On February 29, 2016, Bobokulova was detained near the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in Moscow with the severed head of a child in her hands.

The woman spoke to herself and threatened to blow herself up.

As the investigation found out, a native of Uzbekistan for three years worked as a nanny in one of the Moscow families, caring for a seriously ill girl.

On the day of the murder, the woman waited until the child's parents left the apartment, strangled the girl and cut off her head with a kitchen knife.

Leaving the apartment, she knocked over the oil lamp, which caused a fire.

In November 2016, the court released Bobokulova from criminal responsibility for the crimes committed, finding her insane.

It turned out that in Uzbekistan she was registered in a psychiatric dispensary, but hid this fact from Muscovites who hired her to look after her daughter.

A native of Uzbekistan was placed in a psychiatric clinic in Kazan.

Bobokulova's lawyer explained to RT that the procedure for her discharge from the clinic and return to Uzbekistan is regulated by the international convention on the extradition of persons who have committed a crime and released from responsibility in connection with mental illness.

The lawyer noted that Bobokulova will be able to leave the psychiatric clinic in Kazan only if the Russian authorities receive a satisfactory medical report on her mental state and decide to deport the woman from the country.

“According to an international convention, a person who has committed a crime and is released from criminal punishment by a court decision cannot continue outpatient treatment on the territory of a foreign state,” the lawyer explains.

- That is, if Bobokulova is officially recognized by the medical commission as not dangerous to society, she will have to be released.

And she will have to receive further outpatient treatment at the place of permanent registration. "

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The lawyer added that due to the resonance around Bobokulova's precedent, all actions for her deportation are controlled by the prosecutor's offices of the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan.

“The question of how legitimate the extradition of Bobokulova to Uzbekistan will be will be decided at the highest level, that is, in the prosecutor’s office,” Saifutdinov concluded.

"Was put in the hospital many times"

Bobokulova's mother Mahfiza Tuychieva, who lives in Uzbekistan, confirmed to RT that her daughter is ready to be released from the hospital if Moscow decides to deport her.

The last time a woman visited her daughter in a Kazan psychiatric clinic was in February 2020.

According to her, Gulchehra's condition "has improved significantly and she will be back soon."

However, the doctors did not give the exact date of the daughter's discharge.

“I spoke with my daughter at the hospital in the presence of doctors.

She looked normal.

She asked when she could return home.

The doctors said that my daughter was in good condition.

They explained that if Moscow decides to deport their daughter, they will release her from the hospital, ”Tuychieva recalls.

Bobokulova's mother says she will continue to treat her daughter at a local clinic when she returns to her homeland.

Before leaving for Moscow, Gulchekhra was registered at a neuropsychiatric dispensary.  

In Uzbekistan, Bobokulova has sons.

One of them, Daler Kuchkorov, will turn 21 this year. 

“The last time I saw her was in 2016, when she was leaving for Moscow.

I haven't seen my mother in five years.

When I meet her, I will say that I missed her very much, that I missed her, ”Daler tells RT.

Gulchekhra's father, according to Makhfiza Tuychieva, died a year after his daughter's trial. 

“When it turned out that his daughter had schizophrenia, he felt very bad.

And after what happened in Moscow, he could not bear this shame and fell ill.

He lay in bed paralyzed for a year, I looked after him.

But he died, could not stand it, "says Bobokulova's mother.

Despite the incident, the neighbors characterize the Bobokulovs as "good people."

The head of the settlement says that only the closest knew about Bobokulova's diagnosis - fellow villagers only heard that on the eve of her trips to work in Moscow, the woman's health deteriorated and she was hospitalized a couple of times.

“After the treatment, she behaved normally - she communicated normally both with neighbors and family members,” explains the chairman of the mahalla, Raman Radjabov, to RT.

- There were no complaints from fellow villagers about her, their family always lived in harmony.

The family members did not complain about her either.

Of course, we were shocked when we found out what happened.

She comes from such a good family, we didn’t believe that she could do such a thing. ”

Meanwhile, Bobokulova's ex-husband Robbin Ashurov told RT that they had already tried to treat the woman several times before, but to no avail.

"We divorced for a long time, we have not met for fifteen years," said the interlocutor of RT.

- Divorced because she is sick.

She was treated several times, but still, after the treatment, the disease was noticeable.

At that time, she no longer lived with me, but with her mother.

She talked to herself, screamed - she was sick.

She was admitted to the hospital many times for treatment, but she still did not recover. "