Couch killer wife escapes jail

**Incognito** · 11th-July-2008

Woman kills husband with folding couch

By Denis Pinchuk Wed Jul 9, 12:17 PM ET

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday.
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St Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall.
The couch, which doubles as a bed, folds up automatically in order to save space. The man fell between the mattress and the back of the couch, Channel Five quoted emergency workers as saying.
The woman then walked out of the room and returned three hours later to check on what she thought was an unusually quiet sleeping husband.
Police refused to comment.
The St Petersburg Emergency Services Ministry said a private rescue service removed the man's body.
Video on the television channel's website showed emergency workers sawing away the side panels of a couch to remove a man in his underwear lying headfirst between the cushions.
Emergency workers said the man died instantly.

**frostyboy** · 19th-November-2008

From Metro: Couch killer wife escapes jail

A woman who killed her husband by shutting him inside a folding couch has been given a suspended sentence.

After her partner made an insulting comment about her, Vera Lukyanova, 55, closed the settee on him as he was lying on it.

Prosecutors said she was drunk during the incident, which happened in July in St Petersburg, Russia.

Her husband was suffocated after he was unable to free himself.

The city's Channel Five television station showed rescue workers sawing through the folding sofa in order to reach the man at the time.

He was wearing his underwear and was trapped between the mattress and the back of the couch.

Rescue workers said the woman had left her husband there for three hours before checking on him.

She had faced up to two years in prison for manslaughter, but was given a one-year suspended sentence.

Metro filed this article in the weird section of their website.