Filenews 12 December 2022 - by Ioanna Mantzipa
The curtain fell today on the trial of the brutal murder of the two Russian women, Khaiat Alraeesi 43 years old and Mariia Gazibagandova 33 years old, who were found buried on December 5, 2021 in a pit in a country house in Kardama, an area of the village of Pelendri in the Limassol district.
The Permanent Assize Court of Limassol imposed concurrent prison sentences of 25 years on the main defendant for the two counts of manslaughter. "His act was brutal, brutal and deliberate," the Assize Court notes in its decision, stressing that he killed two defenceless victims.
As for the 44-year-old accused brother of the perpetrator, the Assize Court imposed concurrent prison sentences of 9 months after admitting him to the charge of interfering in a police investigation but also to the charges of illegal possession and transport of a firearm.
The chronicle of the case
The confessed killer was summoned for questioning on November 25, 2021 and arrested on November 26, 2021, for a case of kidnapping and abduction of a person with the aim of his secret and unjust confinement.
He denied involvement until December 4, when he confessed to committing the double crime. The bodies of the victims were found buried with a two-meter pit, following suggestions by the 33-year-old defendant in the courtyard of a country house. According to the facts of the case, which were put before the Assize Court, the defendant after killing the two women went to Limassol to find equipment and workers to dig the pit to bury the victims in it.
He then transported the two workers to the house in question and indicated to them where they would dig. After they finished digging, he transported the workers to Limassol and returned back where he placed the bodies in an excavator and then buried the victims. In fact, he placed gravel over the pit so that the recent excavation could not be noticed.
The motive of the double murder, as the 33-year-old defendant said in his confession to the investigators of the ICF Limassol, was that on his return from the hunt on November 17, 2021, he heard the two Russian women sitting in the yard, conversing in Arabic and mocking him for his religious beliefs, mocking him for his masculinity and sexual performance.
Then, as he said, they got into a heated argument, he took the gun and shot them from very close range. He first shot 43-year-old Khaiat Alraeesi who at the time had her back turned towards him and then refilled the shotgun and shot 33-year-old Mariia Gazibagandova. He then moved the 43-year-old's body to the basement of the house and placed it in nylon and then pulled into the basement and the second victim who was still alive. In fact, he remained in the place until he made sure the 33-year-old had died.
