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Napoleon scholar Oleg Sokolov sentenced to 12 years’ jail for dismembering Russian student
A Russian court has sentenced a Napoleonic historian to 12-and-a-half years’ jail after convicting him of the murder of a young student, whom he dismembered.
Key points:
- Oleg Sokolov was found in a river with a bag containing body parts of a 24-year-old woman
- He pleaded guilty to murder but said it was not premeditated
- The former history professor was renowned for re-enacting the battle scenes of Napoleon Bonaparte
Oleg Sokolov, 64, a former history professor at St Petersburg State University, is known for re-enacting the battle scenes of former French military commander Napoleon Bonaparte.
He was found in a river in November 2019 with a bag containing the severed arms of Anastasia Yeshchenko, a 24-year-old postgraduate student.
Sokolov…
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