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Father and son cannibals who beheaded an ex-cop jailed for 15 years in Ukraine

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: May 14, 2020 14:12 IST

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The whole world is infected with the coronavirus. More than 4.4 million people worldwide have been infected with the corona so far. The number of deaths due to the deadly corona virus has reached 2 lakh 97 thousand 765 worldwide so far.
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In the last 24 hours, 88,202 new corona cases have been reported and 5314 people have died in the last 24 hours. My comforting father is that 16 lakh 57 thousand 716 corona patients have overcome corona worldwide.
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On the other hand, a shocking pattern has emerged as the country co-operates with an epidemic like the Corona. A shocking incident has taken place in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
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According to the Daily Mail, shocking information has surfaced that accused Maxim Kostyukov and his son Yaroslavlan killed police officer Yevgeny Zhenya Petrov.
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They will serve sentences of 15 years. The three had been drinking together when a row developed over the conflict between Kyiv's forces and pro-Moscow rebels in the eastern part of the country.
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A court heard how the son had held Petrov from behind while the father stabbed him twice in the chest. Yaroslav Kostyukov then severed the ex-policeman's head and cut out flesh from the corpse as well as his heart, kidneys, liver and other internal organs.
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He confessed to cooking the 'meat' which was served when the father and son hosted a homeless man called Yura. Yaroslav later he changed his testimony to deny being the cook and claiming he 'hardly ate' the human 'broth'. He was sick as soon as he took the first bite, he said. He claimed the homeless man had 'feasted' most of it.
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Law enforcement said there was clear evidence the pair were cannibals and had cooked and eaten their victim. The headless corpse was found dumped near a cellar doorway close to an apartment block in Saltivka, near Kharkiv. Shocked resident Alexandra Grabeynik said: 'I looked - and it seemed like there was no head.
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