A Russian flight attendant was stabbed to death with a pair of scissors by her ex-husband in a five-star hotel in Dubai.
Identified Anastasia, the woman found dead with 15 stab injuries to her neck, torso and limbs at Voco Bonnington hotel in Dubai last week.
Who is Anastasia?
Anastasia worked as a stewardess fro the Pobeda Airlines in Russia. She was 25. Reports suggested that she was planning to move to private jets.
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Her ex-husband, Albert Morgan, 41, is a legal consultant and a Russian citizen. He stalked her to the UAE, believing she was working as a high-end escort.
Morgan posed as a guest by donning a hotel robe from the laundry room and convinced a maid to let him into Anastasia's room. Though he initially decided to cover her in green paint and cut off her hair with a pair of scissors, they got into a violent confrontation. During the altercation, he stabbed her with the scissors and fled the country.
Dubai police identified Morgan from the CCTV footage and informed Russian authorities immediately. As soon as he landed in St Petersburg, Russian police arrested him.
Reports claimed that he requested to be sent to fight for Russia in Ukraine, but a judge ordered that he should be jailed for at least two months as the probe progresses.