Convicted Murderer Freed to Fight in Ukraine Accused of Butchering Six When He Got Back Home
Source: Daily Beast
DEADLY RAMPAGE
Convicted Murderer Freed to Fight in Ukraine Accused of Butchering Six When He Got Back Home
Igor Sofonov was apparently recruited from prison to take part in the war against Ukraine.
Allison Quinn
News Editor
Updated Aug. 03, 2023 8:19AM EDT Published Aug. 03, 2023 7:30AM EDT
A Russian ex-convict who was apparently freed from prison to take part in the war against Ukraine has now been accused of returning home and butchering six people in a drunken rampage.
Igor Sofonov, 37, is one of two suspects arrested in the Republic of Karelia after authorities discovered two burned down homes containing the remains of six people who’d been stabbed to death. The victims were identified as a 39-year-old man and his 71-year-old father in one home, and a man and his wife, brother, and a pensioner in the second home.
Police say a “long-standing domestic conflict” motivated the savage murders in the village of Derevyannoye but gave no further details.
Along with Sofonov, another ex-con named Maksim Bochkarev is also accused of taking part. At a court hearing Wednesday, Sofonov told reporters he’d taken part in the war, according to Karelia News. It was not immediately clear if Bochkarev, too, had been involved in the bloodshed in Ukraine.
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