Russian admiral’s wife and son found stabbed to death
St Petersburg has
been shocked by the murder of the wife and son of a retired naval commander who
was found to have been run over by a train.
Their bodies were
discovered last Saturday, eight days after Lobanov, 86, died under the wheels
of a suburban train near Ruchi station in the northeast of the city, two miles
from the apartment where they all lived.
Police discovered
the mutilated bodies of Rear Admiral Leonid Lobanov’s wife, Nelli, 84, and son,
Maxim, 56, after breaking down the door of the family’s apartment following
neighbours’ complaints of a bad smell. The pair had been stabbed and slashed
several times in the torso, neck and face. They were in a sitting position on a
sofa.
Investigators
said the victims had died no later than the day of Lobanov’s death. Nothing was
missing from the apartment, despite there being valuables and 600,000 roubles
(£5,900). The door was locked and one of the three sets of keys was missing.
