A bride was doused with alcohol and set
on fire by her new husband after she
slept with an ex-lover on her wedding
night, police say.
Mother-of-one Veronika Filippova had
sought out her former partner after her
new spouse fell asleep drunk at their
wedding reception. The 27-year-old had
80% burns on her body and died despite
frantic efforts by doctors to save her.
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Ivan Kuzmin, 30, her new husband
(pictured with Veronika, left, during
happier times), has confessed to murder
after being arrested by police in
Volgograd in southern Russia, according
to police,
News site Life News reported that the
bride took 'revenge' on her husband
after he passed out at their wedding
party, but was later overcome with guilt
and told him everything.
He responded by dousing her with neat
alcohol - used to make homemade vodka
- before igniting her in flames with a
cigarette lighter.
'He set her on fire when she was
sleeping, pouring alcohol on her and our
Veronica is gone,' said relatives of
Filippova's in an online posting.
The relatives, Olesya and Yuriy Prosin,
also claimed that Kuzmin had hidden
from his wife a previous conviction for
attempted murder and attempted rape
involving an underage girl, which led to a
ten year prison sentence.
'He did not have enough of a conscience
to confess to Veronika that he was in
prison for trying to rape an underage girl
and attempted to burn the apartment to
hide the evidence. He is nothing but
scum.'
Another version was that the couple
went our for a beer the day after the
wedding and this is when the row
erupted leading to her being doused in
alcohol and set alight.
The woman tried to escape, but her
husband caught up with her and struck a
lighter,' it was reported.
Police confirmed that Kuzmin had
confessed to killing his wife.
The alleged lover she visited on her
wedding night was not identified.
Sergey Domnyshev, an investigator in
the Kirov district of Volgograd, confirmed
to the media Kuzmin's previous
convictions and jail term.
He now faces a possible 15 year prison
sentence.
Filippova was previously married and had
a ten year old son by her first husband.
Culled from UK Daily Mail