WARNING: DISTRESSING DETAILS – Tatiana Pyanova, 38, was detained in Kharkiv in April brandishing a knife in one hand and holding a plastic bag containing the severed head of her teenage daughter
A ‘loving mother’ who was found naked in a street with her daughter’s severed head in a plastic bag will not be jailed.
Tatiana Pyanova, 38, a cleaner, “did not realise her actions” in the lockdown stabbing and beheading of her “adored” only child Kristina, 13, a court has ruled.
At the time her shocked neighbours in Ukrainian city Kharkiv said her macabre actions were totally out of character.
A naked Pyanova was detained in Kharkiv city in April brandishing a knife in one hand and holding a plastic bag containing the severed head of her teenage daughter in the other.
The body of her daughter had 20 stab wounds in the brutal killing.