Two women beat man to death after he refused to have party in cemetery

Two women have been detained in Russia on suspicion of the brutal beating and killing of a man after he refused their request for a party in a cemetery.

The women, Rosa, 29 and Martha, 37, were drinking with 63-year-old Alexander in a churchyard in Stavropol, a city in southwestern Russia. Local reports state that the female friends are accused of unleashing a series of kicks and punches on the man after he refused to have sex with them.

A report citing local police stated they beat him to death in a forest before hiding the body in a hole. The report stated: “They dragged the body into the forest and hid it in a hole.” The body was subsequently found and the women detained with a murder case opened. Footage shows one of the women being escorted to the alleged forest crime scene by officers from Russia’s Investigative Committee, who are seen carrying a dummy before laying it in a patch of grass on the forest floor. One of the women is then seen placing her feet on the dummy’s torso.

In a statement, the committee said the victim, who was known to both women, was subject to a vicious attack in which they rained down a series of blows with their “fists and feet“, hitting his head and torso, before he died on the scene. They said: “In the course of an argument, the women gave the 63-year-old man multiple blows with their fists and feet to his head and torso.”

“The victim died at the scene as a result of his injuries. Wishing to avoid responsibility for the offence, the accused dragged the body of the deceased to a wooded area and hid it in a hole.” The two women were remanded in custody for two months over the death of the 63-year-old in the cemetery.

Stavropol is several hundred east of Russian-occupied Crimea and was recently the site of what Ukraine claims was a successful drone attack on a Russian aircraft. In April, Ukrainian officials claimed to have shot down a Tu-22M3, a long-range Russian strategic bomber carrying cruise missiles, causing it to crash into the area. But Russian officials told local publication RIA Novosti the incident resulted from a technical hitch.