A groom who beat his new wife to death in front of horrified wedding guests has been jailed for 18 years. Stepan Dolgikh, 25, killed his bride after believing she had cheated on him before dumping her body into a ravine in October during a fit of “jealous rage”.
The murderer turned on Oksana Poludentseva, 36, during a wedding party at a private house with shocked guests reportedly too scared to intervene.
Police were alerted to the shocking incident in the Siberian village of Prokudskoye, the Mirror reports.Chief investigator Kirill Petrushin said: "He began to punch and kick her outside the house.
He grabbed her by the hair, hit her, pushed her out into the street, where he also continued to strike her body and head." Dolgikh already had a previous conviction for murder, but was befriended by Oksna when he was in jail.
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