Mother, 49, ‘hacked teenage daughter to death with an axe as she slept because she was too argumentative’

A mother is accused of hacking her teenage daughter to death with an axe while she slept because she was “too argumentative”.

Tatiana Degirmendzhy, 49, is in police custody following the murder of her daughter, Yulia, 18.

The teenager was attacked with an axe while she slept at her home in the city of Chaykovsky in Russia.

Police say the mother hit her daughter several times with the axe, severing the teenager’s carotid artery in her neck.

It was reported that Degirmendzhy fled the scene by going to a railway station and catching a train out of the city.

Yulia was later discovered by her brother Sertan Degirmendzhy, 22, who had returned home from a walk.

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Reports said he found her lying motionless on her bed covered in blood and discovered an axe on the floor nearby.

He called the emergency services but paramedics said Yulia died from blood loss.

Police said her mother’s passport was missing from the home after a search.

However, Degirmendzhy was found within 24 hours trying to board a train in the city of Izhevsk, 36 miles away from her home.

Police claim the mother has confessed to her daughter’s murder.

A spokesperson said: “The investigation found that during the last three months the suspect and the victim had been
constantly in domestic conflicts.

“The suspect said she committed the murder on the basis of personal dislike.”

If found guilty of murder, Degirmendzhy faces 15 years in prison.