MOSCOW - A Russian court on Monday condemned the so-called "infidels" of 56 new murders, according to media reports.
With the new convictions, the death toll of the murderer Mikhail Bokov, who specializes in killing women, has risen to at least 78, while the prosecutor insisted the actual number was 81, according to the British newspaper Mirror.
The murderer is sentenced to life imprisonment for life. Thus, the Erkutsk district court ruling in Siberia means that the offender will spend the rest of his life in a far-off prison in the far reaches of the earth, the most severe punishment given that Russia has abolished the death penalty.
In "noble mission"
Popkov, 54, claimed in his own defense that he was killing these women for wanting to "cleanse" his city of "prostitutes and prostitutes." Investigations showed he was raping most of his victims before they were killed or slaughtered with knives.
Bocov began the killings in 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, while the last crimes occurred in 2010, the victims ranged between 18 and 50 years.
Bobkov, a former police officer who was also known as "the madman of Angarsk" after the arrest of the city that was the scene of his crimes, appeared very angry when his fellow lieutenants dismissed him before they put him behind bars when he was arrested, He gets his monthly salary of £ 258.
"He was quiet when he heard the sentence of life sentence, but then he was very upset and angered by the decision to deprive him of his monthly salary and salary," said prosecutor Alexander Shkienov.
"This thief decided to appeal against the penalty of stripping him of his rank and depriving him of his monthly pension."
Bobkov killed his victims after being invited to a night stroll sometimes in a police car outside the hours of service near the city of Angarsk, and when a policeman was involved in some investigations to remove suspicions about himself.
Popkov was arrested in 2012 in Vladivostok, far east of Russia, after a large-scale investigation involving DNA analyzes of people with cars matching tire traces at the crime scene.
It should be noted that, Bobkov, and his 78 murders, he has smashed the "record" of two more Russian couriers.
Andrei Chikatello, who was executed in 1994 after being convicted of murdering 53 teenagers and children in the Soviet era, was convicted. In 2007, another butcher, Aleksander Bechushkin, was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of murdering 48 people in Moscow.
