A Russian woman, Margarita, who had both her hands axed off
by her jealous husband has told how he 'calmly' carried out the sickening
attack. Dmitry Grachyov was convinced his 25-year-old wife Margarita had
cheated on him after she demanded a divorce.
He drove her to a forest, outside of Moscow on 11 December,
after lulling her into a false sense of security that he accepted her wish to
end their marriage and jointly raise their two young sons.
He bound her so she couldn't run and forced her onto her
knees with her arms on a tree stump before chopping of her hands, and was
ecstatic after severing her limbs.
First, he battered her fingers with the axe - 'he was
totally calm when he did this to me,' Margarita recalled.
'Unfortunately, I felt all the pain very much. I was
dreaming that I would faint. I kept thinking all the time, why am I not
fainting? When he raised his axe, I just closed my eyes, I didn't look at it…
(when my hands were chopped off). At one moment, I started rolling off the
stump and he cut my thigh with the axe – I have scars there too.'
'I still can't understand how this could happen. I've lived
with him for so many years.'
Until she had demanded a divorce, he was not violent.
'Then something flipped in his mind. 'This is something from
Medieval times, inconceivable, unreal, it just could not happen,' she told Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.
'I think he had read somewhere about this exact sort of torture. He acted very cleverly, he even tied up my arms before the attack in the right way and in certain places in order to prevent a huge loss of blood.'
After the attack, he picked up her severed hands and bundled
her back in the car.
'Only when he had chopped off my wrists and was driving me
to the hospital, he kept repeating - 'What adrenalin! What adrenalin!' – and he
said it with real delight in his voice. Once on the way he checked my pulse, he
was making sure that I was alive.
'But apart from that, he kept telling me on the way to
hospital that I should wait for him to come out of jail, or he would cut off
the hands of my relatives.'
She gets notes from him via his friends.
'He asks me to forgive him but says that he will kill me if
I don't wait for him when he is jail. He seriously thinks that now he has
punished me, we have a hope of a happy life in future.
'I just don't understand how he pictures this in his mind. This is what I am afraid most of all. His threats are real. Before, he threatened to pour acid on me or to hurt me in some other ways. He kept his word. I don't have any kind of protection.'
She is refusing to speak to him or his relatives.
'I don't have any words left for him. I am trying to forget
this story and to think positively about the future,' she said.
She has denied cheating on her husband.
One of her hands has been successfully sewn back on and
surgeons say she will have 70 per cent use of it.
'Still, it is my hand, I will hug my children with it,' she
said.
She will also have an artificial right hand fitted.
Moskovsky Komsomolets
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