Three teenage girls,Krestina 19, Angelina 18,and Maria 17, are facing charges for killing their father,Mikhal Khachaturyan.
Khachaturyan’s body was found on a staircase in a Moscow apartment block in July 2018, with knife wounds to his chest and neck.
It was gathered that hours before his death, Khachaturian had returned from a Psychiatric clinic,lined up his there daughters and chastised them for making a mess of the apartment and pepper-sprayed their faces.
Investigation revealed that his elder daughter Krestina fainted.That was the night the three sisters decided to kill their father. They attacked him with a hammer,a knife and the same can of pepper-spray he had used on them earlier.
Interrogation revealed that the young women tried to inflict wounds on themselves to make it look as if their father who was sleeping at the start of the attack,had attacked them with a knife first, Then they called an ambulance and the Police.
The next day, the girls were arrested and confessed to killing their father, saying they had endured years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse from their father.
The three sisters were indicted on charges of premeditated murder last summer.After a long period of Investigation, their trial opens on Friday in Moscow courtroom.
According to Aleksey Lipster, one of the sisters lawyers, the two elder sisters, Krestina and Angelina, will stand trial together, while their younger sister,Maria,who was a minor at the time of the killing but indicted after she turned 18,is mentally unfit to commit a murder and will be tried separately on a murder charge..
Reports say the case has drawn demonstrations in support of the sisters under the”I did not want to die”campaign calling on authorities to reclassify the case around the sisters self- defense.
