Potentially the worst serial killer of Russia in a decade, Alexander Pichushkin, has rejected services of one of the country’s top lawyers during the first hearing on the merits.
Photo: Alexander Miridonov
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Serial Killer Needs No Lawyer
Potentially the worst serial killer of Russia in a decade, Alexander Pichushkin, has rejected services of one of the country’s top lawyers during the first hearing on the merits. The so-called Bitsevsky maniac, Pichushkin is accused of 49 murders and three attempted murders.
“He has no intention to defend my interests but backs up the prosecution instead. I’ve had a talk with him and I know what tactics he chose,” Pichushkin announced in the room of Moscow City Court Thursday during the first sitting on the merits.
The services of lawyer Roman Shirkin were rejected after judge Vladimir Usov explained the rights to the parties and offered them to make a motion. At that time, Pichushkin stepped in to challenge the lawyer.
Then, the judge informed that 44 candidates to the jury and 21 persons affected had shown up, and everyone but for Pichushkin found that attendance enough to proceed with the trial.
According to previous reports of the media, Pichushkin lured the better part of his victims in the Bitsevsky park of Moscow, by inviting them to drink vodka. For every person he killed he placed a coin on a chess board, planning to cover all 64 squares of it.
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