Moscow couple arrested on suspicion of murdering seven homeless people

A Russian couple have been arrested on suspicion of murdering seven homeless people in Moscow in an attempt to “clean up” the city. Investigators said the 20-year-old man and 25-year-old woman targeted “homeless people who were fond of drinking alcohol” - carrying out the killings in isolated places at night-time. According to the website Life News, the killing spree was brought to an end after a street cleaner who was allegedly stabbed by the couple survived and went to the police. It is claimed that although the majority of those murdered were homeless, the man and woman misidentified two victims as being down-and-out.

The detained man said he committed the murders with the aim of ‘cleaning up’ the city”

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Speaking to the website, Alexander Yevseyev, father of the couple’s first victim said his 35-year-old son Sergei was stabbed 107 times after stopping to have a drink with a friend in a local park. The alleged killers’ second victim was a man who lived in a flat but spent much of his time drinking in parks, said Life News. It is not the first time Moscow’s homeless have been targeted in this way. In 2007, notorious serial killer, Alexander Pichushkin, was jailed for murdering 48 people in the city’s Bitsevsky Park. The majority of his victims were elderly homeless men.

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