Russian nanny who decapitated four-year-old girl and paraded severed head in the street apologises… as she claims she’ll soon be released
Gyulchehra Bobokulova, 38, killed her young charge Anastasia 'Nastya' Meshcheryakova before setting the flat on fire
THE nanny who beheaded a four-year-old girl in a plot to avenge Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s bombing of Syria has said she believes she will be free in three years – despite medics saying there is a 50-50 chance she will kill again.
Gyulchehra Bobokulova, 38, killed her young charge Anastasia 'Nastya' Meshcheryakova before the ISIS-loving nanny set the Russian flat on fire this year.
She sent shockwaves of horror when footage showed her brandishing the four-year-old's head as she walked through the street close to a Moscow metro station minutes.
But in a rare interview, the woman accused of the February 29 murder told she is getting fat due to drugs treating her schizophrenia and regrets the murder.
Bobokulova said: “'I did the wrong thing. I regret it. Wrong, wrong.”
Speaking from her bed at the psychiatric hospital prison cell in notorious Butyrka Prison, Bobokulova told the Russian journalist Eva Merkacheva that she believed she would be treated for three years before being released.
She said she wanted to be released to live in her native Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic in central Asia.
She is unlikely to face a murder trial due to her mental health, with psychiatrists ruling she was insane, with no real links to terrorist groups ever discovered in connection to the murder.
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The women, who was heard to shout 'Allahu Akbar' (Arabic for God is Great) and threatening to blow herself up during the horrifying rampage, also said she missed her children.
She reportedly said she wanted to return to her native Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic in central Asia, and be treated there.
A psychiatrist who is currently working on the murderer’s treatment said: “She has not attacked anybody (in jail) during the last three months.
“If she stops taking her pills right now, I cannot guarantee how she will behave. The chance of another crime is 50-50.”
Journalist Merkacheva described the nanny as “calm” and said the interview was given from Bobokulova’s bed.
She said Bobokulova was upset that no one had written to her while in jail and she felt very lonely.
It is understood she was wearing the same clothes she was arrested in almost five months ago.
Merkacheva said: "I have met much younger women prisoners who did not care but Bobokulova spoke for a bit about her worries that she is 'getting fat and unattractive."
