ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – A young Russian woman was jailed for 27 years on Thursday for delivering a bomb that exploded in the hands of a pro-war military blogger last year and killed him on the spot.
Darya Trepova, 26, was convicted by a St Petersburg court of charges, including terrorism, in connection with the death of blogger Vladlen Tatarsky.
Tatarsky was killed by a bomb concealed inside a statuette in his likeness that Trepova had presented to him as a gift during a talk he was giving in a St Petersburg cafe.
Trepova said she had been set up, and had thought the statuette contained a listening device, not a bomb.
(Reporting by Reuters, writing by Mark Trevelyan; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
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