Police ‘missed chances to stop man beating his wife to death’
Anastasia Ovsiannikova’s husband showed footage to his friends to show off that she was ‘under contr..
Police ‘missed chances’ to stop a husband beating his wife to death, filming her injuries to brag she was ‘under control’.
Photographs of Anastasia Ovsiannikova, 28, shocked Russia, taken by Maxim Gribanov, 34.
She was left black and blue and she died in hospital six days later.
Now claims have emerged that no-one called police at first, and when police did know they didn’t act quickly enough.
The attack, lasting five hours, began in a cafe in front of witnesses who failed to alert the police, it is claimed.
Then Gribanov dragged her by the legs along the ground dumping her in his car, in front of witnesses.
At their flat, he continued the relentless beating despite her screams for help.
Eventually neighbours did call the police and alerted her father, Sergei Yashukin, 58.
Gribanov then moved her to two new locations – throwing her in the boot of his car in front of witnesses.
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One source said: ‘I know for sure that he was dragging her by her feet to throw her in a car at a local garage.
‘He beat her for 20 minutes inside the car, and no-one said a thing or attempted to help.’
Finally, it was her father and not police who tracked her down when he heard her phone’s ringtone in a flat where he had left her.
At each new place the attacks continued and the police are accused of failing to trail the car salesman who is rumoured to have contacts in the police who had previously protected him when he assaulted Anastasia and earlier his first wife.
It was left to her father to find her, but it was already too late.
‘I opened the door, looked inside and nearly passed out,’ said her father.
‘She had a huge bruise on her eye, so big, it was all black.
‘She was all black.’
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Even after the attack, police were ready to downplay the crime, according to local MP Andrey Trofimenkov.
‘I decided to post this image online after certain suspicions appeared that he had connections in law-enforcement and so could hush up the incident,’ he said.
‘I wanted to help this case become as public as possible to prevent this.’
Gribanov is held in detention and has confessed to intentionally causing grave injury.
He faces up to 15 years in prison.
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