Nanny who says beheaded Russian child to avenge Syria strikes ''mentally unsound''

MOSCOW:A Kremlin spokesman said on Thursday that remarks by a woman who said she had beheaded a child in Moscow to avenge Muslims killed in the Kremlins campaign of air strikes in Syria should be regarded as those of someone who is mentally unsound

Updated At : 10:23 PM Mar 03, 2016 IST

Gulchekhra (Gyulchekhra) Bobokulova, a nanny suspected of murdering a child in her care, sits inside a defendants'' cage as she attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia on March 2, 2016. Reuters

Moscow, March 3

A Kremlin spokesman said on Thursday that remarks by a woman who said she had beheaded a child in Moscow to avenge Muslims killed in the Kremlin's campaign of air strikes in Syria should be regarded as those of someone who is mentally unsound.

Gulchekhra Bobokulova, of Muslim-majority Uzbekistan, was shown in video footage posted online earlier on Thursday as saying she had committed the crime because she was unhappy with President Vladimir Putin's decision to launch air strikes in the Middle East.

"I may be wrong. I'm not an expert or a judge but it is obvious that we are definitely talking about a woman who is mentally unsound," Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman, told reporters.

"You need to regard anything that such a deranged woman says accordingly." — Reuters