A serial killer who had the nerve to boast about getting lots of pleasure from killing her homeless victims has been served with maximum punishment.

An evil killer who boasted how she got "s*xual pleasure" from stabbing her victims has been jailed for 13 years.

Elena Lobacheva, 27, was a member of a ruthless gang of five "butchers" who murdered 14 people as part of their twisted plan to "clean" Moscow.

She claimed to have been inspired by the 1998 horror movie Bride of Chucky, about a doll possessed by a mass murderer, but also hero-worshipped notorious Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin.

Smiling gang leader Pavel Voitov, 23, attempted a Nazi salute despite being handcuffed in court as he was sent down for life.

Standing next to Lobacheva in the glass cage, he wore a shirt emblazoned with the words "Only Hatred".

The woman murderer, who allegedly laughed as she murdered homeless people, wore a mask covering her face.

After her arrest she told police that "randomly stabbing the body of a dying human brought her s*xual pleasure".


The court was told she "loved" killing, and she confessed to involvement in half the gang's murders.

A drunk carpenter killed by the gang was knifed 171 times, while others were battered to death with hammers, the court was told.

Voitov and Lobacheva killed a father using a hammer and a knife and hit him so hard that bits of his brain were found 16ft from his body.

Two women were among their 14 victims. One, called Tatyana, was stabbed 40 times near Belarussky Station.

Gang member Vladislav Karatayev, 21, was jailed for 16 years by the Moscow court, while Artur Nartsissov, 25, and Maxim Pavlov, 19, both received nine and a half year sentences.

Voitov said of Lobacheva: "It was clear that she loved murders and enjoyed watching them.

"She always spoke about torture and the dismembering of bodies.

"She laughed as we killed, it was clear as day that she loved it."

Karatayev added: "It was clear for me that committing murder was pleasant for her.

"Both of them, Lobacheva and Voitov were absolutely calm and found pleasure in horrific murders."

When her flat was searched, police found five knives and a step-by-step guide to killing people on her computer.

She also had photos of all of her victims with their stomachs cut open and body parts cut off'.

Folders titled "Tenderness" and "Need This" contained hundreds pictures and video recordings of the torture and executions.

In a notebook she had recorded the number of knife wounds on the gang's victims' bodies.

Prosecutor Yaroslav Myts gave a chilling assessment of the five killers.

"Members of this gang don't find anything strange in what they were doing," he said.

"Look at the number of wounds they were inflicting on helpless people.

"This shows they were enjoying it.

"It's not just hatred - they are maniacs."

He warned: "The worst thing is that these people have followers.

"After the gang was detained, one neo-Nazi online community was renamed 'Support Pavel Voitov'."

Lobacheva was an ardent follower of sickening serial killer Pichushkin, nicknamed the Chess Board Maniac, who murdered 49.

He was arrested in 2006 before reaching his target of one victim for each of the 64 squares on a chessboard.

Earlier this year the monster, speaking from his cell in an Arctic penal colony, made a similar claim to Lobacheva, saying that killing "brought me colossal pleasure".

He added: "It is comparable to an orgasm."

A female friend of Lobacheva, called Anastasia Soldatova, said: "We often discussed the beauty of death with Elena.

"Voitov and Lobacheva were keen on serial killers, they spoke a lot about the maniac (Pichushkin) who was like an icon for them.

"They wanted to be like him."

Lobacheva's flat was "messy and filthy", reported Life, even though her neighbours had described her as "polite and nice".

"There were horrible smells and personal belongings all over the flat' which she shared with a pet rabbit," it was reported.

She was nicknamed "Chucky's Bride" after admitting being obsessed since childhood with the 1998 movie, starring Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, and Katherine Heigl.

Lobacheva had a tattoo linked to the movie on her arm.

They murdered their victims in less than a year between 1am and 4am in derelict areas away from CCTV cameras.

The killings were conducted with "ultra cruelty", said prosecutors.