A distraught father, Vyacheslav (Slava) Matrosov has forced his best friend, Oleg Sviridov to kill to dig his own grave after the pedophile sexually abused his six-year-old daughter.
Gatekeepers News reports that Matrosov forced Sviridov to dig his own grave in a forest in the country’s Samara region.
Sviridov died from knife wounds following a fight with father Matrosov who secretly buried his corpse in the unmarked grave.
Investigators concluded that the paedophile took his own life during the forest fracas in which Matrosov made clear his fury over the sex abuse.
Matrosov was initially held on suspicion of murder but this triggered a public outcry in Russia.
This week, Krasnoglinsky Court in Samara convicted him of ‘inciting’ his friend ‘to suicide’.
The duo friendship broke when the father found sickening and graphic footage on his friend’s mobile showing Sviridov forcing his daughter to perform a sex act on him.
According to report, the girl was just six when the explicit sex abuse footage was filmed on Sviridov’s phone.
His daughter, now nine, was heard pleading, ‘Oleg, that’s enough, I can’t take it anymore. I want to go home.”
The 35-year-old father, a former rocket engine factory worker, could have been jailed for 15 years if he had been charged with murder.
There was a wave of public support in Samara region for Matrovov after he was linked to the killing of paedophile Sviridov, and the case was highlighted around the world.
Locals in village Pribrezhnoye raised money for his initial legal fees. They supported him for “saving our children by ridding us of a child sex attacker.”
Weeks after the incident, there was an outpouring of public support for the Matrosov, including from prominent journalists on Russia’s tightly-controlled broadcast news.
Locals from Vintai village started a petition to demand his release and spared jail after admitting to the killing which reached 2,500 signatures.
The petition for Matrosov read, “Sviridov fell asleep, and Vyacheslav took his mobile phone and decided to see what his friend was looking at.
“Every father would have done this [killed someone they saw abusing their child]. This will be an example to everyone.
“Therefore, we demand understanding from the executive branch, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee.”
Matrosov has, however, been jailed for 18 months in a strict regime Russian penal colony.
