A Vogue mannequin has admitted he stabbed her husband to dying after he ‘taunted her by bringing one other girl residence when she had refused to have intercourse with him’.
Lilia Sudakova, 27, now faces as much as 15 years behind bars after prosecutors in Russia upgraded the fees towards her from grievous bodily hurt to homicide.
Sudakova, talking to Redakciya for a program titled ‘Why Ladies Kill’, claimed Sergey Popov, 28, tried to assault her after bringing the opposite girl residence, resulting in her stabbing him in self defence on November 28, 2020.
The mannequin, who is known for her pure ginger hair, and her mom Irena Sudakova, 49, have repeatedly insisted she was a sufferer of home abuse and acted in self defence following her arrest on the finish of 2020.
Sudakova, who has been saved below home arrest in pre-trial detention, mentioned her husband was ‘useless drunk’ when he got here residence from a bar with the opposite girl ‘simply to indicate me that he can discover another person’.
‘He wished what I refused to do the evening earlier than… he wished intercourse,’ she mentioned.
Vogue mannequin Lilia Sudakova, 27, has admitted he stabbed her husband to dying after he ‘taunted her by bringing one other girl residence when she had refused to have intercourse with him’
Sudakova (left) now faces as much as 15 years behind bars after prosecutors in Russia upgraded the fees towards her from grievous bodily hurt to homicide over the dying of her husband Sergey Popov (proper)
The mannequin (pictured being detained by police) and her mom Irena Sudakova, 49, have repeatedly insisted she was a sufferer of home abuse and acted in self defence following her arrest on the finish of 2020
The mannequin claimed Popov turned aggressive when she supplied to cook dinner for the opposite ladies however refused to make meals for him.
Sudakova, who mentioned she was chopping a tomato with a kitchen knife on the time, claimed Popov ‘attacked’ her earlier than their pal who was visiting them within the St Petersburg flat ‘pulled him away’.
Popov allegedly lunged at her once more and, as she ‘tried to push him away’ she inadvertently stabbed him within the chest.
‘I noticed blood, noticed a knife in my hand,’ she mentioned. ‘And I used to be scared that he would take this knife and simply chop me to dying.
‘Then I referred to as an ambulance, tried to carry him to senses, and gave him water. He mentioned: “It is not painful”, and added: “Forgive me”.’
Popov died later in hospital.
Prosecutors declare Sudakova intentionally stabbed her husband and supposed to kill him.
Sudakova, who mentioned she was chopping a tomato with a kitchen knife on the time, claimed Popov ‘attacked’ her earlier than their pal who was visiting them within the St Petersburg flat ‘pulled him away’
He had ‘put the palm of his proper hand on her proper shoulder in an effort to calm her and resolve the battle’ however she ‘intentionally and purposefully’ confronted him and ‘stabbed him at the least as soon as within the chest’, mentioned the brand new homicide cost at Dzerzhinsky district court docket, St Petersburg, the place her trial into is because of begin this month.
The mannequin initially advised investigators she stabbed her husband of 4 years from ‘jealousy’ after he introduced residence a lady he met at a bar, say reviews citing legislation enforcement.
Her mom Irena has claimed the catwalk star was a longtime sufferer of home abuse, and that she had acted in self defence when stabbing Popov 13 months in the past.
He had grabbed her hair and kicked her legs, she mentioned, citing a witness within the flat.
‘At that second, she waved him away and by chance caught a knife into him.’
It was an ‘irresistible impulse’, she mentioned, including: ‘Lilia is a sufferer, it was self defence. This was such a sick love. All of it occurred accidentally.’
Prosecutors declare Sudakova intentionally stabbed her husband, meaning to kill him, and have upgraded the fees towards her from grievous bodily hurt to homicide
The mannequin’s pal, stylist Karolina Pavlovskaya, additionally mentioned Lilia had been a sufferer of abuse. ‘She was a broken-down lady with a stupendous look, however vacancy inside,’ she mentioned.
The couple had been in a vacation flat in St Petersburg when he was killed.
Sudakova has appeared on the duvet of Russian Vogue and in magazines in Italy, China and Japan, and was the face of a Moscow garments model.
The mannequin was talking to reporter Sasha Sulim on Redakciya channel on a mission referred to as ‘Why Ladies Kill’, which highlights the position of home abuse in lots of case.