Russian father who killed 'paedophile' friend after finding footage of him 'raping his eight-year-old girl' is released from custody amid calls not to charge him with murder

Daily Mail ^ | 9-6-21 | Will Stewart

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A Russian father who killed his friend after allegedly finding footage of him raping his eight-year-old girl has been released from custody amid calls not to charge him with murder.

Factory worker Vyacheslav M, 34, was drinking with his friend Oleg Sviridov, 32, when he allegedly saw video of his daughter being abused on Sviridov's phone.

Vyacheslav immediately confronted Sviridov who fled, but he was eventually tracked down by the distraught father who stabbed him to death.

The killer has now been freed from jail and put under house arrest for two months pending an investigation.

Normally suspected killers would not be freed but there has been an outpouring of public support for the father, including from prominent journalists on Russia's tightly-controlled broadcast news.

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Looks like justice was done.

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“Law enforcement say that Sviridov’s phone contained more footage of him abusing other children in Vintai village in Russia’s southwestern Samara region.”

[Jim Noble]

Dad medal for this guy.

[joshua c]

pin a medal on him

[Michigan Bowhunter]

Medal of freedom

[Joe 6-pack]

"Looks like justice was done."

In light of the fact Russia has no swamps with alligators, I'd say he did the best he could under the circumstances.

[BykrBayb]

Apparently bears are lazier than alligators, but that’s okay. Dad did good.

[DesertRhino]

” including from prominent journalists on Russia’s tightly-controlled broadcast news.”

If only they could know the joys of an honest, free and robust news media, like we have in America. /s

[Tupelo]

“In light of the fact Russia has no swamps with alligators”

I cannot help but wonder if you thought twice about the first part of that sentence. It makes a man think.

[Billthedrill]

If only they could know the joys of an honest, free and robust news media, like we have in America.

Perfectly said.

[boycott]

That’s the way it should be.

[lee martell]

That’s a terrible situation. The father did what he had to do after seeing the evidence. No one walks away from this unchanged. Father and daughter, of course, but both families are forever changed.

[MercyFlush]

Is Putin going to pin a medal on the guy? He should. Really.

[dfwgator]

Do they still have the “Hero of Socialist Labor” medal?

[Trillian]

He did society a favor. People like that have done this a lot before they are eventually caught.

Police sources said that the deceased man's phone contained other sickening videos which showed violent rapes of other village girls, aged six and 11.

The videos indicated that the dead suspect had been abusing children for five years before Vyacheslav discovered the footage on his phone.

[decal]

The quotes in the title should be around “friend,” not “paedophile.”

[DesertRhino]

Astute observation.

[Newbomb Turk]

Hope it was a violent and painfully slow death !

[353FMG]

And a bottle of the finest vodka.

[robowombat]

Virdorf had an appointment in Samara.