Mother killed newborn, kept body in freezer

 A Russian woman has been found guilty of killing her newborn girl and keeping her body in a freezer for five years.
 
A court in northern Russia found Lyudmila Smirnova, 37, guilty of killing her child by smothering her with a cloth shortly after giving birth in 2007.

The body was kept in a freezer until it was discovered by Ms Smirnova’s partner last year.
 
It's believed the unidentified partner pulled the body out of the freezer, thinking it was meat he could cook.
 
The court took into account the fact that Ms Smirnova pleaded guilty and has two other children when it handed down a 22 month suspended sentence.
 
The sentence follows last week's news of a Russian man who admitted killing at least six people before eating their hearts and livers.
 
The case of Russia's "cannibal serial killer", Alexander Bychkov has shocked the nation after he was arrested last week.
 
Bychkov wrote in a diary of his crimes that he turned to murder after his girlfriend left him for being "a wimp".
 
Bychkov, 23, was arrested for shoplifting but then told police that he had buried bodies in his backyard in Belinsky, a town some 630 km southeast of Moscow, a spokeswoman for the investigative committee charged with the case said.
 
"Six bodies were found buried there," she said, adding that the death toll might be higher still.
 
She said investigators were looking into media reports the killer cut out his victims' livers and hearts and ate them.
 
In passages from his diary leaked to Russian media, Bychkov said his girlfriend had kicked him out. "She said I was a wimp, not a wolf ... I will show her ... Maybe she will stop complaining and understand that I am a lone wolf."
 
In 2007, a Russian serial murderer convicted of killing 48 people was jailed for life.
 
Alexander Pichushkin bragged he had no regrets and said killing was like falling in love.

Russian media called him the "chessboard murderer" because he said he planned to kill 64 people - one for each square on the board.

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