Authorities in Russia have detained a juvenile girl for reportedly ordering her mother’s contract killing.
It is believed that 38-year-old estate agent Anastasia Milosskaya was killed by beating and strangulation.
According to Russian news, her body was found bound in plastic and wrapped in a mattress by a neighborhood custodian after being dumped in a trash can in the city of Balashikha, which is close to Moscow.
Authorities have already detained the woman’s daughter, 14, and a 15-year-old boy who is thought to be her daughter’s boyfriend on suspicion of paying two other teens to assassinate Ms. Milosskaya for just 350,000 rubles (about £3,600).
Reports state the 15-year-old boy had been living with the family at their flat.
Prior to her death, Ms Milosskaya had apparently tried to get him to leave, believing him to be a bad influence on her daughter.
The teenage couple are also accused of later letting their two accomplices into the apartment, and being present for the killing of Ms Milosskaya at the property, it has been reported.
The alleged contract-killers are thought to have then left the body at the flat, returning two days later to dispose of it in the skip where it was later found.
The suspects, all under the age of 17, have reportedly been charged with murder and conspiracy to murder, and will remain in an adolescent facility pending further investigation.
If convicted, they face a maximum sentence of 10 years, initially to be served in a youth correctional colony.
Investigators are reported to have further alleged the girl and her boyfriend had planned to live off her mother’s roughly £30,000 in savings.
A friend of Ms Miloskayya’s daughter has been quoted as saying: ‘She spoke about hating her mother many times, even though her mother was a good person who loved her.’