Russian boy kills mother, batters face to rid her of the devil'

Moscow: In a gory incident, a 19-year-old Russian boy is accused of strangling his mother to death with a charger cable and battering her face 'to rid her of the devil.'

According to reports, Egor Sosin, son of Russian construction magnate Igor Sosin and a student of Hult International Business school in London, was under the influence of strong hallucinogen when he killed his 44-year-old mother Anastasia Novikova- Sosina at a hotel in Kazan.

The mother-son duo appeared at Kazan from Moscow in the afternoon, rented a room in a five-star hotel. In the evening, the young man beat up his mother after having an argument.   

"I had been choking her for about half an hour. Satisfied that she had died, I sat on her and began punching her with all my force. I hit her in the face. There were not less than 20 hits, they were strong. I cried when I hit her. I was well aware that my actions were killing my mother," he reportedly told investigators.

"I bit into her neck on the right side and felt blood in my mouth. I saw blood running from my mother's face from my hits," he added.

Heated argument between the mother and son preceded the violent incident, so much so that the authorities wanted to call police. The hotel management called the police after they spotted Egor walking around the corridors of the hotel in his innerwear.

The police discovered a battered Anastasia in a blood soaked room. When the authorities questioned the boy, he said that his mother tried to persuade him to have sex prompting the violent incident.

Preliminary investigation has indicated that he may be affected by paranoid schizophrenia. If medically accepted, he would not face charges of murder.