A Russian professor who was detained after being pulled from a river with a backpack containing two severed arms will remain in custody pending trial on charges of killing and dismembering a female student, a St. Petersburg court has ordered.
Oleg Sokolov, a history professor at St. Petersburg State University is escorted to the courtroom in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. The lawyer for a prominent Russian history professor suspected of murdering a female student, some of whose remains were found in his residence, is asking for him to be released under house arrest pending trial. The case of Oleg Sokolov has attracted wide attention in Russian media because of its grisly drama.
The limbs were identified as those of the student; other body parts were found in the river and in Sokolov’s riverside home in the historic part of St. Petersburg, less than one mile from the Hermitage Museum. The judge rejected Sokolov’s appeal to be released under house arrest and ordered him to be held in jail for two months pending trial.
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