A dramatic video has been released of a confession by teenage sisters moments after they killed their brutal ‘rapist’ father.
The girls face murder charges in a high-profile Russian case over the killing of their ‘controlling paedophile father’ Mikhail Khachaturyan, 57, who ‘tortured and sexually abused’ them.
Krestina, Angelina and Maria – aged 19, 18 and 17 when their father was killed with his hunting knife and a hammer – claim they acted in self-defence after years of bullying.
But in a critical video of their interrogation released by relatives who dispute their innocence, they admit their father was sedated and sitting in an armchair and not directly threatening them when they took his life.
Angelina Khachaturyan at the crime scene. ‘Me and Angelina approached from the back, she had a hammer, I had a knife,’ Maria said in a police video
Maria Khachaturyan at the crime scene. Maria claimed in a recorded 999 audio call moments after her father died that they killed him after he attacked them with a knife
The girls face murder charges in a high-profile Russian case over the killing of their ‘controlling paedophile father’ Mikhail Khachaturyan, 57, (pictured) who ‘tortured and sexually abused’ them
Earlier Maria claimed in a recorded 999 audio call moments after he died that they killed their father following him attacking them with a knife.
In the police video at the crime scene, their family flat, Maria said: ‘He was sitting in this armchair, in that corner.
‘Me and Angelina approached from the back, she had a hammer, I had a knife .’
Angelina said she had been preparing food for their divorced father with whom they lived.
‘Then we said – let’s try, take a risk,’ said Angelina.
‘And we asked our eldest sister, so she helped us and sprayed pepper spray.
‘I was on the left, Maria on the right.
‘She first stabbed him with the knife.
‘He woke up.
‘Then I hit him with the hammer. Twice. ‘
‘Then he came round and pulled himself up asking: ‘What’s going on?’
A detective asked: ‘He did not understand what is going on?’
Angelina agreed.
Maria Khachaturyan speaks during police video at the scene of the crime
Angelina is let by police officers in handcuffs. She was quoted as claiming that the eldest sister had urged her siblings not to kill
Some relatives claim their father (pictured) was not the ogre they have claimed
In the leaked audio of the 999 call, Maria had said that her father was ‘under the influence of drugs’ when he was killed.
‘He has sedative pills, but he took a lot of them,’ she said.
Pretending to be one of her elder sisters wile making the emergency call, Maria was asked: ‘He attacked you with a knife?’
‘Yes,’ she sobbed.
The emergency services operator asked: ‘And which of you stabbed him?’
‘Me,’ she cried.
In another testimony Maria said: ‘We approached from the back and attacked.
‘Simultaneously. I stabbed him in his neck from the back.
‘From the side Angelina hit him with the hammer, several times on his head.
‘It seems that I stabbed him twice in the neck and Angelina hit him twice with the hammer.
Mikhail Khachaturyan (left) was stabbed to death in Moscow by his three daughters (Angelina, pictured right) last year, and to the dismay of psychiatric experts and defence lawyers all three will be stand trial for murder
Angelina (left) said she had been preparing food for their divorced father with whom they lived. In the leaked audio of the 999 call, Maria, 18, (right) had said that her father was ‘under the influence of drugs’ when he was killed
Two of the three, Krestina and Angelina (pictured), could be jailed for between eight and 20 years
‘He immediately stood up. Like jumped.
‘He was saying something unclear, like ‘I need to wash my face’.’
Later he was found to have been stabbed through the heart with his hunting knife.
Angelina was also quoted as claiming that the eldest sister had urged her siblings not to kill.
‘Krestina was trying to persuade us, pleading: ‘Do not do this’,’ she said.
The shocking case has transfixed Russians amid defence claims that the sisters had been tortured and raped by their father so they could not be held responsible for their actions.
Some relatives claim their father was not the ogre they have claimed.
Two of the three, Krestina and Angelina, could be jailed for between eight and 20 years.
Angelina was also quoted as claiming that the eldest sister, Krestina (pictured), had urged her siblings not to kill
A court has already ruled that Maria, now 18, did not understand her actions when she was part of the alleged ‘group’ conspiracy kill their ‘mafia boss’ father.
As a result Maria will not face jail regardless of the verdict.
After the attack, Maria admitted: ‘We all were scared.
‘It seems that Krestina checked his pulse.
‘I called the ambulance and police.’
Defence lawyers have pressed for the murder allegations to be dropped against all the sisters or mitigated by recategorising the case as causing death by ‘self defence’.