see url:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/murder-kremlin-critic-london-made-look-like-suicide-nikolai-glushkov
see full article...Certainly seems a lot of Russkies getting bumped off
of late...whether by the private or state mafia...and the UK law
enforcement seem unable to catch the killers...
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The prominent Kremlin critic Nikolai Glushkov was strangled at his home
in south-west London by an unknown assailant who wrapped a dog lead
around his neck in a crude attempt to “simulate” the appearance of
suicide, an inquest heard.
Glushkov’s body was discovered on 12 March 2018 at his suburban home in
New Malden. His daughter Natalia Glushkova told the hearing that she and
Glushkov’s partner, Denis Trushin, had called round that evening after
growing concerned.
They discovered Glushkov lying face down in the hallway. A “red dog
lead” had been double-looped around his neck. There were “marks” and
obvious signs of bruising, the inquest heard. A small two-step ladder
was found next to his body, as well as a blue rope on the staircase.
A postmortem, however, found signs Glushkov had been murdered. These
included fractures to his larynx and hyoid bones, as well as superficial
injuries to his face. A paramedic who came to the scene, Dominic Beil,
said he immediately called the police because he felt the scene was
suspicious.
Beil said that in suicide cases the ladder was typically kicked over but
in this case remained upright. He said he found Glushkova sobbing in the
kitchen. Glushkov was dressed in a green polo shirt and tracksuit
bottoms and was clearly dead, he said.
The inquest was told Glushkov’s murderer had ambushed him from behind
and had rapidly subdued his victim. There were no signs of “prolonged
grappling”. Glushkov had taken mild sedatives and a glass of alcohol but
this had not played a role in what a coroner ruled on Friday was an
“unlawful killing”.
Glushkov was a close friend of the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who
was himself found dead in 2013 at his ex-wife’s mansion in Berkshire.
Glushkov, Berezovsky and Alexander Litvinenko – killed in 2006 with
radioactive tea – were high-profile London-based opponents of Russia’s
president, Vladimir Putin. All are now dead.
A week before Glushkov was murdered, two Russian intelligence officers
poisoned Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury using novichok, a deadly
Soviet-developed nerve agent. Detectives believe Glushkov may also have
been the victim of a professional assassin sent by Moscow, but have so
far struggled to identify a suspect or suspects.
The inquest heard Metropolitan police officers had identified 537
individuals during their three-year investigation. However, so far they
have not pinpointed a concrete suspect. Nor were they able to find a
conclusive motive for Glushkov’s murder.
Speaking on Friday, Glushkova said the coroner had confirmed her
“beloved father” was murdered. “His killer tried to stage a suicide, but
the pathology evidence saw right through that. Unfortunately, despite
SO15’s three-year-long investigation, his killer has escaped justice.”
SO15 is the UK police’s counter-terrorism division.
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