A nanny accused of murdering a child
in her care and brandishing the child's severed head outside a metro station
smiled after admitting 'Allah ordered' her to carry out the act.
Gulchekhra Bobokulova, a 38-year-old
mother of three sons, also replied 'yes' when asked if she accepted her guilt
as she entered the courtroom in Moscow, Russia.
In scenes that shocked the world, the
hijab-wearing nanny was seen walking the streets of Moscow brandishing the head
of Nastya Meshcheryakova for an hour before she was detained by police.
Her appearance in court comes a day
after a police source revealed the babysitter had kept her schizophrenia
a secret and was 'kicked on to the streets' after a divorce.
Bobokulova, who the Russian press
has dubbed 'the bloody nanny' was asked as she walked towards the court room
handcuffed to a police officer why she killed the child, and she replied:
'Allah ordered me.'
And asked in court if she pleaded
guilty, she nodded yes. Questioned if she felt sorry about the girl, she shook
her head, evidently meaning no. Inside the court cage, she smiled and waved to
journalists.
Speaking in broken Russian from the
suspect's cage, Bobokulova said: 'Allah is sending a second prophet to give
news of peace' and also complained that she was 'hungry', had not been fed and
would 'die in a week'.
'Hi to everyone,' she said, waving
at the crowd of journalists in the courtroom.
Investigator Olga Lapteva, who was
clearly emotional, told the court that Bobokulova was suspected of committing an
'extremely serious crime' and that she should face 'a mandatory prison sentence
of considerably more than three years.'
It has also emerged today that a
mystery boyfriend may have been with her in the apartment at the time the
child, Nastya Meshcheryakova, was killed.
Police apparently now believe that
she was not the instigator of the crime.
She has confessed to killing the
child but police are now searching for the mystery man who evidently had a
relationship with her - and is suspected of radicalising her.
It was revealed today that police
suspect a boyfriend or husband visited her at the Meshcheryakov family flat on
the day the girl was killed.
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