Brit uni graduate killed Russian blogger and stuffed naked body in suitcase after she mocked his sexual performance – The US Sun
Olivia House
Published Sep 15, 2026
A GRADUATE of a British university has been jailed for murdering a Russian beauty blogger in a frenzied knife attack after she mocked his sexual performance.
Maxim Gareyev, 33, left the body of 24-year-old Ekaterina Semochkina, who is also a doctor, in a suitcase in her flat, naked except for a suspender belt.
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The IT specialist will serve nine years in a strict regime Russian penal colony for murdering travel and beauty blogger.
Highly-educated Gareyev - who had four degrees including an Open University MBA - claimed he killed Ekaterina, known as Katy after she taunted him.
The social media influencer with 85,000 subscribers mocked him for not being as wealthy as her other male friends, a “lack of personality”, and his failure to satisfy her in bed, he alleged.
He told the Russian Investigative Committee after they had sex “she carried on making jokes about me”.
The killer - who claimed his victim charged £130 an hour for sex to supplement her earnings - told detectives he “lost control”.
“I grabbed a knife in the kitchen. She half turned and I struck her in the neck,” he said.
“She tried to escape to the bathroom and lock the door. I pulled her out of the bathroom.
'SCREAMING'
“Her blood was dripping. Then in the corridor she started screaming.
“I covered her mouth. I stabbed her again, to her chest with a knife.
“She ran to the living room and started fighting me, but I was in a state that I didn't feel pain.
"During the fight she fell down and I struck her twice again in the neck. She had convulsions and died.”
The victim’s parents, who are also doctors, went to her flat and found her body after she failed to answer her phone.
“I saw my daughter lying in a suitcase,” said Olga Semochkina,
“The big red suitcase was in the middle of the room. I started to scream."
Ekaterina’s father Stanislav Semochkin rushed to her side hoping she was still alive, but soon realised she was dead, she said.
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They strongly denied that she had worked as a prostitute and said her “jealous” university classmates had posted her pictures on escort sites.
His mother posted a video of her grave, saying: “Here she is - our girl. Beautiful and clever….Now just to hug and kiss her, we come to this grave.”
Gareyev was quoted as saying: “I want to apologise to Katya's parents. I regret a lot. I’m very ashamed of myself.”
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