Boyfriend nails his girlfriend to a wooden plank in 'crucifixion' before setting her on fire leaving her with horrific injuries 'for ending their relationship'

A woman has been near pinch horrific injuries aft being nailed by her feet and hands to a woody plank successful a scary 'crucifixion' by her fellow earlier he torched her. 

Russian Oksana Kuzmenko, 40, told a tribunal really her person had staged nan crucifixion earlier dousing her assemblage pinch petrol and mounting her alight aft she ended their relationship.

The recruitment head suffered life-altering wounds aft she 'lit up for illustration a candle', pinch her quality near wholly changed pursuing nan sadistic torture astatine nan hands of her boyfriend. 

Oleg Shchegolikhin, 33, a welder, was thrown down bars for 12 years in a strict authorities penal colony by a Russian tribunal for attempted execution pinch 'extreme cruelty' — but has volunteered to conflict for Vladimir Putin successful his warfare against Ukraine, and truthful is improbable to walk overmuch clip successful jail.

The unfortunate bravely gave grounds against sadistic Shchegolikhin successful tribunal complete really he threatened to termination her successful nan car repair shop wherever he worked successful Yekaterinburg, eastbound Russia.

Recalling nan chilling ordeal that took spot successful October, Kuzmenko said: 'He took disconnected my boots, he took my near limb and hammered a nail into it.

'And successful my correct limb he took thing for illustration a corkscrew and twisted this crisp entity into my correct leg,' she continued.

While Shchegolikhin carried retired his vile 'crucifixion', he had been making threats to termination his woman arsenic she laic helplessly nailed to a woody plank.

'He took retired a cigaret and a lighter, and poured petrol truthful I lit up for illustration a candle,' she recounted.

The welder watched his woman pain live while smoking his cigarette, earlier taking a occurrence extinguisher and putting retired nan flames.

But it was excessively precocious and nan terrible harm had been done.

After Kuzmenko had been relieved of nan flames, Shchegolikhin peeled disconnected nan burnt tegument from his girlfriend's correct hand, leaving her pinch scars she will unrecorded pinch for nan remainder of her life.

He past ordered her to thrust him to nan metropolis of Asbest, but she feared he would termination her and hide her assemblage successful a wood while connected nan journey.

Brave and injured Kuzmenko past decided to deliberately clang nan car into different conveyance - a move which apt saved her life arsenic Shchegolikhin near her and fled nan segment arsenic constabulary arrived. 

Kuzmenko explained to officers nan hideous ordeal she had suffered, which she told nan tribunal was followed by an hr agelong beating from her boyfriend. 

Cops discovered nan female successful a 'terrible condition,' nan tribunal heard, and she was later diagnosed with severe burns to nan precocious limbs, precocious respiratory tract, neck, face, and buttocks.

She had heavy wounds successful her limbs from nan nail and 'corkscrew' and was successful a 'grave' information successful hospital. 

Shchegolikhin had hidden his past arsenic a convict pinch erstwhile sentences for hijacking, theft, battery, and drunk driving, Kuzmenko told nan court.

His lawyer Olga Polishchuk claimed aft nan proceedings that he would entreaty arsenic he 'never intended to termination her' erstwhile he nailed her to a plank and group her ablaze.

She said: 'Under interrogation and successful tribunal he ever said: 'I loved her'.'

Shchegolikhin is group entreaty nan condemnation for attempted execution but meantime has applied for a strategy that enabled him to person a pardon from Putin aft serving six months successful his war.

'He is going to nan war,' she said.

'He wrote a connection to nan Russian Army backmost successful October.  

'Taking portion successful nan war, he would beryllium capable to make amends to her,' she added.