Philip Fox was sentenced to three years in prison for incitement to suicide
The Tobolsk district court sentenced the Manager of one of the “groups of death” in social network “Vkontakte” Budykina Philip (pseudonym Philip Fox) to three years and four months in prison for incitement to suicide. This was reported to the correspondent of the publication 72.ru assistant judge of the district court of the city of Elvira Yakubova.
“In the course of the trial failed to prove the guilt and the involvement of the young person to the two episodes in which he persuaded adolescent girls to suicidal thoughts,” — told the correspondent of the publication assistant judge of the Tobolsk district court Elvira Yakubova.
According to the investigation, Bodaken bowed to suicide 16-the summer inhabitant of Astrakhan, and 17-year-old girl from the village Irtysh Tobolsk district, Tyumen region. Both girls were rescued.
On 14 June the Investigative Committee announced the completion of the investigation against Philip Budykina.
11 may it became known that Philip Bodaken pleaded guilty to incitement to suicide.
Bodaken was detained November 15, 2016. From Quebec he was sent to St. Petersburg, where he was charged under article 110 of the criminal code (“Incitement to suicide”).
Investigating authorities have established that the young man through the “group of death” in “Vkontakte” incited teenagers to suicide through play. According to investigators, the actions of Fox influenced the decision of 15 teenagers to commit suicide, five others were at risk, but they managed to escape death.
Bodaken was detained in a detention center in St. Petersburg prison “Crosses”. In early February, the doctors of the psychiatric hospital found him sane.