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.
Ivan Kuzmin,
30, her new husband 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.
Source UK
Daily Mail
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