Rapper’s wife who chopped him up with hacksaw while still alive before putting body parts in washing machine is jailed

THE wife of a popular rapper has been jailed after being found guilty of killing and dismembering her husband.

Marina Kokhal, 41, was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison, for hacking her partner’s corpse and shoving his body parts in a washing machine.

Ukrainian-born singer Andy Cartwright, whose real name is Alexander Yushko, was killed in 2021 from a suspected insulin injection.

Kokhal quickly became the primary suspect and was accused by detectives of “drinking her dead husband’s blood and having sex with his corpse”.

It was also alleged the woman put his body parts in bins and fed his fingers to rats.

She later admitted to dismembering Cartwright’s body with a knife and hacksaw, then storing his limbs in her fridge or running them on a long cycle in her washing machine.

Kokhal collapsed and required medical attention in a Russian courtroom when the sentence was delivered.

Prosecutors accused her of committing “the perfect murder” and she was convicted despite four separate expert examinations failing to prove she was the killer.

One test, however, found evidence the husband was still alive when the dismembering began.

It began “a few minutes, dozens of minutes before death,” the assessment said.

Kokhal denied killing her husband and claimed he died of a drugs overdose, insisting she wanted to hide the shame of his “inglorious” addiction from his fans.

Investigators said no blood was found at the couple’s flat, adding all surfaces and utensils had been “washed with vinegar”.

At the time of his death Cartwright was having a secret affair with a fan.

Some body parts were located in her fridge, others in bin liners intended for disposal, while his fingertips were fed to rats in the yard outside, it was alleged.

It comes as teacher Elena Tsukanova, 31, was charged with murder after cops found six-year-old Miloslav’s torso on the balcony of her flat in Moscow, Russia.

Their discovery came after shocked workers at Golyanovsky pond found the boy’s severed head and reported it to police.

The head was squeezed into a plastic bag and purple backpack that had been thrown into the water, according to reports.

It’s understood a jigsaw or hacksaw was used to behead the corpse, but knives were also seized from Tsukanova’s flat.

The mum today confessed to murdering her disabled son and throwing his dismembered head into the pond, according to the Russian Investigation Committee.

Tsukanova “believed herself to be a witch” boasting of supernatural powers.

She said she was a “conduit between worlds” and participated in “experiments with consciousness”.

Initially, law enforcement believed the boy to be aged between seven and ten.

The child was reported missing by his grandmother who claimed he had left with his “stepfather”.