Roman Afanasyev, 31, who also held child out of car window driving at speed, sentenced to 300 hours community work as punishment.

Fearing for their lives, and afraid they would be next on the maniac's target list, no one dared tell police.

Thirteen people suffered serious burns in freak accident caused by a sudden burst in hot water pipeline.

Dmitry Loshagin held for year and a half after remains of naked wife Yulia, 28, found in woods.

'Perfect husband and father' axed, stabbed or strangled full-figured women 'who resembled his mother'.

Russian officials claimed little orphan Maxim Kuzmin suffered an appalling death after being adopted to the US. 

Alexei Gorulenko confessed to keeping himself alive by eating human flesh, but denied killing Olga Kurochkina's husband.

One of only 500 of the largest cats in the world left in the Siberian wild is gunned down in Kharbarovsk region.

Tigre de Cristal under fire for 'abusing' rare big cat to promote gambling revolution.

Cub was shot in the legs but there are fears the mother was also slain by poachers.