Russian courts insist ‘Allahu-Akhbar’ screaming baby head-cutter is not terrorist but ‘mentally ill’
Killer nanny who beheaded four-year-old girl because ‘Russia bombed Syria’ is NOT a terrorist, she’s mentally ill, court to be told
- Gyulchehra Bobokulova pleaded guilty to killing girl, four she cared for
- She decapitated Anastasia Meshcheryakova, four, and set her home on fire
- Bobokulova, 39, then paraded her head through the streets screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’
- She claimed she had done it because Vladimir Putin dropped bombs on Syria
- But prosecutors in Russia say she is not a terrorist and they will not submit evidence linking her to radical Islam
- She is considered mentally incapable after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia
A nanny’s admission that she beheaded a four-year-old child to avenge Vladimir Putin ‘spilling the blood’ of Muslims in Syria appears to have been removed from the evidence at her Moscow trial.
In shocking testimony soon after she
decapitated the girl with a kitchen knife, Gyulchehra Bobokulova, 39,
told her police interrogators that Kremlin military actions had
triggered her horrific attack.
After beheading helpless Anastasia
Meshcheryakova, the burka-clad babysitter strode around the city waving
the girl’s severed head in the air, shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ and
threatening to blow herself up.
Her leaked statement on the murder, to which she immediately confessed on 29 February, suggested a direct political motive.
Gruesome footage showed Bobokulova (pictured) parading the little girl’s severed head through the streets of Moscow in February
The Uzbek babysitter claimed God ordered her to
kill Anastasia Meshcheryakova (pictured), four, but prosecutors in her
case are not expected to submit evidence to suggest she is an extremist.
She also claimed God ordered her to kill the disabled girl. Clutching the severed head, she shouted: ‘I am a terrorist’
As her trial started this week, her
court-appointed lawyer Alexander Goverdovsky revealed prosecutors will
offer no evidence suggesting she acted under the influence of radical
Islam or on behalf of a terror organisation.
He told reporters that he ‘did not see any
information’ suggesting such a motive in the case files which form the
court testimony, which he has studied in detail.
Instead, Bobokulova has been diagnosed
with a ‘chronic psychiatric disorder’, namely paranoid schizophrenia,
and ruled not mentally capable.
The court is not expected to investigate
whether she had any political or religious motive or whether her
vendetta against Putin was a factor – despite her earlier statements.
On Monday she told judge Viktoria
Koteneva, ‘I plead guilty’, when asked how she responded to charges of
murdering a child, arson, and making bomb threats.
Soon after her trial began on Monday, the judge went into closed sessions, so the media and public could not follow it.
Bobokulova’s (right) court appointed lawyer
revealed she has been ruled mentally incapable of standing trial after
being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia
The court is no longer investigating whether the
attack was politically or religiously motivated even though Bobokulova
claimed she was avenging the Muslim blood spilled by Putin in Syria.
Bobokulova will most likely be sent to a
psychiatric hospital rather than prison to undergo ‘forced compulsory
medical measures’.
In her initial testimony – which was
leaked to the Moscow media – she told an unnamed police investigator
that she had a clear motive.
She said: ‘I took revenge. Putin spilled [the blood], he bombed with planes. Why on Muslim people? Why are you bombing?
She also claimed to have watched
beheadings by militant groups on her computer, saying: ‘I saw online how
they were cutting off heads. This hatred.
‘I saw how they cut off heads and I did
it. There was a voice in my head: “Do it to the girl”. I killed the
girl, yes. But I don’t need treatment.’
Anti-Putin campaigner Anexei Navalny has claimed that Bobokulova looked lucid and ‘not very crazy’.
But Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told
reporters: ‘I’m not an expert or a judge but it is obvious that we are
definitely talking about a woman who is mentally unsound.
‘You need to regard anything that such a deranged woman says accordingly.’
The court will investigate whether Bobokulova
was ‘pushed over the edge’ after finding out her husband already had a
wife. Pictured: Anastia’s decapitated body in her cot
The little girl’s mother Ekaterina
Meshcheryakova (left) and father Vladimir (right) have been left
devastated by the loss of their cherished daughter
Bobokulova’s teenage son Rakhmatillo claims his
mother became radicalised after meeting her husband and told him of her
plans to join ISIS in Syria. Pictured: The Moscow flat she burned down
after killing little Anastasia.
The court will instead hear evidence that
she became upset because she found out that her Tajik lover, Mamur
Dzhurakulov, who she married under Sharia Law, already had a wife. This
‘pushed her towards the crime’, it is claimed.
The Investigative Committee – Russian
equivalent of the FBI – will tell the court that there is no evidence
she committed the crime at the behest of a terrorist group or was in
touch with militants.
Her teenage son Rakhmatillo testified to say his mother became radicalised after meeting 48-year-old Dzhurakulov .
He said she told him of her plans to go to
join ISIS, adding:’She told me that she wanted to do the Hajj and move
to Syria because she would be able to wear a hijab, live in line with
Sharia Law, study Islamic law.
‘Once I’d trained in a militant camp, I could become a mujahedin fighter and do jihad.’
Media reports that contacts of extremists were found on her mobile was denied by the committee.
Detectives scoured 500 pages of
transcripts from her social media conversations but found no evidence of
terror links, it is reported.
The nanny is a citizen of Uzbekistan.
Bobokulova is expected to be sent to a psychiatric hospital rather than prison to undergo ‘forced compulsory medical measures’.
She has boasted that being sent to a psychiatric hospital is an easier option than prison where she might have served 25 years.
‘I know everything,’ she said.
‘I have to undergo compulsory treatment for three years and then they will let me go.’
A psychiatrist working with her said: ‘She has not attacked anybody (in jail) during the last three months.
‘But this is thanks to intensive therapy only.
‘If she stops taking her pills right now, I cannot guarantee how she will behave. The chance of another crime is 50-50.’
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