Vyacheslav Matrosov Wiki

Vyacheslav Matrosov Biography

Vyacheslav Matrosov, 35, was jailed for 18 months but has now been allowed to return home a year early.

There was a wave of sympathy in Russia for the father that forced 32-year-old child s*x offender Oleg Sviridov to dig his own grave in a forest.

The pedophile died shortly after after a fight with Matrosov, who secretly buried his body in the unmarked grave.

Investigation

Vyacheslav Matrosov, 35, whose daughter was an alleged victim of Svirdov, was released from jail after just six months. Matrosov is pictured with his wife Natalya Matrosova and her two daughters.

Investigators concluded that Sviridov took his own life during the fight in the woods in which Matrosov made clear his fury at the s*xual abuse.

Sviridov had repeatedly s*xually abused Matrosov’s daughter, then six years old.

The father posted a photo with his wife Natalya, 35, with the words: ‘Home. He loves very much.

Matrosov was initially detained on suspicion of murder, but this caused a public outcry in Russia.

In April he was found guilty of ‘inciting’ his friend ‘to suicide’ by the Krasnoglinsky Court in Samara, and sentenced to 18 months in a strict Russian penal colony, but this term has now been shortened.

Charged

They supported him for ‘saving our children by ridding us of a child s*x offender’.

Prominent TV journalist and former Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak told her followers: “All parents are defending the murderer of pedophiles.”

Sobchak, also known as Vladimir Putin’s ‘goddaughter’, has now fled abroad after risking arrest and imprisonment in the Kremlin’s latest media crackdown.

She was charged with ‘inciting a person to suicide… by threats or abuse’.

Sources close to the case said detailed forensic evidence showed that Matrosov had not stabbed Sviridov in a forest where the dead man’s body was later found in the makeshift grave.

There are claims that Sviridov was given an ultimatum to go to the police and confess to s*xually abusing the girl, or face the wrath of her father.

A relative said Sviridov was seen brutally beaten the day he disappeared in September 2021, more than a week before his body was found in the makeshift grave near the town of Vintai.

Sviridov is feared to have abused two other boys in the village.