The Moscow nanny who beheaded a four-year-old girl in February is pronounced insane

Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, the Moscow nanny who beheaded a four-year-old girl in retaliation for Russia’s military campaign in Syria earlier this year in February, has been declared insane by psychiatrists. Investigators say they have completed their preliminary work and will soon deliver their case files to prosecutors for a formal indictment.

Earlier today, a court has extended Bobokulova’s pretrial detainment until August 29. At the hearing, Bobokulova wept before the judge and begged to be sent home to Samarkand, “for treatment in my homeland.”

Police detained the Uzbekistan native on the morning of February 29, 2016, outside a Moscow metro station. Bobokulova was carrying a child’s severed head, screaming that she was a terrorist, and threatening to blow herself up. After her arrest, she confessed to killing the girl. She says she committed the murder because “Allah commanded it.”