Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Angelina Khachaturyan, 18, and her sisters were in court on Thursday
Russian police are keeping three teenage sisters accused of getting stabbed their father to demise in a Moscow rental block.
The Khachaturyan sisters, aged 17, 18 and 19, have confessed to the homicide, Russian media document. they say their father Mikhail tormented them.
The sisters are quoted as saying he stopped them studying, threatened them with weapons and saved them like slaves.
They are in custody until 28 September. The father’s frame was discovered on 27 July.
The FIFTY SEVEN-year-old had approximately 40 knife wounds, Russia’s Vesti information web site studies. His body was once lying in the hallway of an rental block.
Investigators consider the 17-yr-antique, Maria, stabbed him approximately 35 occasions even as her sisters – Angelina (18) and Kristina (19) – struck his head many times with a hammer and squirted pepper spray in his face.
Maria’s lawyer, quoted by means of Russian RBC news, mentioned it did not seem that the father had raped any of them, however there’ll be a scientific check for any proof of that.
If found in charge the sisters face lengthy prison sentences – however no longer life. The longest that Maria may just serve, as a minor, is 10 years.
