The man from Kazan who killed 31 pensioners appealed the verdict to the Supreme Court.

Radik Tagirov, a resident of Kazan, who killed 31 pensioners, known as the Volga maniac, appealed his life sentence to the Supreme Court. On October 30, it became known from the instance file.

It is noted that the cassation appeal was received by the judicial board for criminal cases on October 27, while the hearing in the case is scheduled for December 25.

In December last year, the Fourth Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction in Nizhny Novgorod upheld Tagirov's life sentence.

The man was arrested in December 2020. On December 2, the suspect was charged under clauses "a" and "h" of Part 2 of Article 105, Part 3 of Article 30, Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Murder of two or more persons for mercenary motives, attempted murder"). During the interrogation, he admitted his guilt in committing crimes. Tagirov said that he introduced himself as an employee of the housing and communal services or social services and then found himself in the apartments of elderly women, then killed them and stole their savings.

According to the investigation, the accused committed crimes from March 2011 to October 2012 in different cities of Russia. Investigators also found out that Tagirov had two previous convictions for possession of weapons and theft.

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