Drunk model ‘beat her gran, 81, to a pulp for refusing to lend her booze money to celebrate International Women’s Day’
A RUSSIAN model beat her 81-year-old grandmother to a pulp after she refused to lend her money to go boozing on International Women’s Day, it is claimed. Irina Vasilyeva, 25, was arrested and faces up to eight years in jail if convicted of attacking her gran, a prominent academic. The victim, Alevtina Bogdanova, is fighting […]
A RUSSIAN model beat her 81-year-old grandmother to a pulp after she refused to lend her money to go boozing on International Women’s Day, it is claimed.
Irina Vasilyeva, 25, was arrested and faces up to eight years in jail if convicted of attacking her gran, a prominent academic.
The victim, Alevtina Bogdanova, is fighting for her life in hospital after the alleged attack.
Reports say the “intoxicated” model had asked her grandmother for money.
But Alevtina – a professor and respiratory specialist in St Petersburg – had refused.
The model then hit her gran who fell over, suffering an eye injury, an internal head wound, and a fracture at the base of her skull, it is alleged.
GBH CASE
A police spokesman said: “It has been established that the citizen (Irina Vasilyeva), being intoxicated, during the conflict, inflicted several blows to the head of her grandmother with her hands.”
Vasilyeva confessed to hitting Dr Bogdanova, said police, and a GBH criminal case was opened.
Sources say the model had been out of work during the pandemic, and was short of money, said local media.
She tried to get cash from her grandmother to buy alcohol to celebrate International Women’s Day, it was alleged.
Police sources cited by news outlet Fontanka said that Vasilyeva had an alcohol problem.
Dr Bogdanova is the author of more than 150 scientific publications.
She has been a professor since 1993.
A video showed the handcuffed woman being escorted to a court hearing.
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The press office of Kalininsky district court reported: “Vasilyeva and her lawyer objected (to detention), pointing out that the accused did not intend to hide, has a registered address, is a citizen of the Russian Federation, admitted her guilt, (and) works.”
Vasilyeva pleaded for house arrest rather than to be remanded in custody.
The court denied her plea.
