Boxer woman who raped man to death with shovel handle and killed another just by kicking gets 13 years of jail
A Russian farmer's daughter has been convicted for beating two men to death, including sexually assaulting one of them with the handle of a shovel in Mikhailovka, Russia. Elena Povelyaikina, a keen boxer, was sentenced to 13 years in prison over the deaths. Local law enforcement revealed how Povelyaikina had attacked an unidentified 37-year-old "drunk" man after he refused to leave her family residence, according to a report by the Daily Mirror.
"At first the girl brutally beat the man, and then she took a handle from a shovel and committed violent acts of a sexual nature against the man," the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement. "When the victim died, the accused carried the body over the fence and threw it on the street.” While investigators were initially unable to find a suspect in the death, a second killing reportedly led them straight to Povelyaikina. According to the report, she was sharing drinks with locals when a man named Evgeny Grebenkov, 31, (referred to as Ivan) made "unflattering" comments about her 57-year-old father Pyotr.
The father, who is said to be a "wealthy" farmer, reportedly raised Povelyaikina and her 26-year-old brother Valery as a single dad. According to the investigators, Ivan lay on a sofa in a drunken stupor when Povelyaikina reportedly leaped on him and beat him to death by punching and kicking him. Police said Povelyaikina confessed to both the murders but later refused to testify in court.
The report says the 22-year-old graduated from college and then returned home to give her father a helping hand on their family farm. In another rather bizarre detail, the report added that Povelyaikina liked to draw pictures of people with severed limbs. Her artistic leanings reportedly worried other villagers. According to the widely-read Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, locals said she was "small in stature" but "strong" as a bull.
"When she was beating Ivan, my sister and I begged her not to touch him," a witness to the second alleged murder told authorities on condition of anonymity. "We were afraid to intervene because she is very strong." They explained, "he lay in the house for another day. We did not call an ambulance, we thought he would recover by himself. But the next morning he stopped breathing."
Meanwhile, authorities said the woman was declared to be "sane" after a full series of psychiatric examinations. "The defendant first confessed to both killings, then refused to testify," state investigator Ivan Lyubyi said. “She put forward several versions: that the first man died after he was hit by a car on the road, and the second from kidney failure, which he allegedly had. But forensic analysis refuted these versions."
She was convicted of "intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, resulting in the death of the victim through negligence, and violence of a sexual nature." Povelyaikina, in a final word before her sentence, "expressed condolences to the bereaved for the loss of their loved ones, but did not admit her guilt in committing the crimes,” according to a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.
Fyodor Kalmykov, her fiancé, maintained that she was “kind” and “could not harm anyone”. "I will wait for her — I've never had such strong feelings for anyone in my life," he reportedly said. Meanwhile, her mother Vera has alleged she was framed by the family's enemies in the village.