A man involved in two murders said he killed his own mother-in-law in self-defense. According to the newspaper’s report, the man said this in the courtroom on April 18. “MK in Chita”.
Kirill Berko’s case is pending in the Trans-Baikal District Court.
21-year-old formerly convicted resident of the Olovyanninsky district accused of murdering two people with extreme brutalitydamage to property through theft and illegal destruction and arson.
Together with a woman, the accused stole a power tool from the house of a villager he had killed before, and two months later, the suspect hit his mother-in-law on the neck with a torus. The victim died at the scene, after which the killer cut off the victim’s head and buried it in his garden and hid the woman’s body in a dumpster.
The defendant explained that he had an argument with the woman because of the accusation that the woman had insufficient financial support for her daughter. According to him, the victim drank and often accused the Russians of “not bringing money home.”
“Then the mother-in-law came, made a scene, broke the window of my house, threw a knife at me. I wanted to take him out, I turned around, he took an ax. I took him away and just stabbed him in the neck in self-defense,” Berko said in his own account of events. He also stated that he had been drinking alcohol the previous day.
Berko also found his explanation of the murder of the Kositsin village resident he knew. According to the accused, her mother-in-law repeatedly complained of being harassed by a villager.
“He came, the door was open. In the greenhouse I saw him take off his trousers, and Kositsin himself was standing with his trousers down. He hit, fell, hit again. He had no pulse, I was afraid and decided to hide the traces of the crime. He knew that the cables in his house were sparking, he poured alcohol on the house and set it on fire,” the murderer said, adding that he took the victim’s pension from the table.
Thereupon, her mother-in-law offered to buy the electric tool belonging to the deceased Berko. According to some reports, the young man who committed the second murder came to the police with a confession.