Miscellaneous

Bad Way to Die: Episode #1

In a folding couch:

A St. Petersburg woman who killed her husband by shutting him inside a folding couch has been given a one-year suspended sentence, prosecutors said Monday.

In response to an insulting comment from her husband in July, Vera Lukyanova, 55, closed the folding couch her spouse was lying on, St. Petersburg city prosecutors said in a statement.

Lukyanova was drunk at the time, they said.

Her husband was crushed as the couch folded up, and he suffocated after he was unable to free himself, the statement said.

In July, St. Petersburg's Channel Five television showed rescue workers sawing through the folding sofa in order to reach the man, who was wearing his underwear and was trapped between the mattress and the back of the couch.

The rescue workers told Channel Five that Lukyanova had left her husband for three hours before checking on him and finding him dead.

Man, that's a powerful folding couch. And how do you get away with a suspended sentence after killing your husband because he insulted you? That sounds like second-degree mattricide to me.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).