A jealous man who burst into his ex-girlfriend's home with a knife and filmed a selfie video as she lay dying has been jailed for at least 30 years. Yurii Muzyka, 34, from New Malden, south London, was found guilty of murder and possession of a blade after fatally stabbing Halyna Hoisan, 29, six times in the chest.
The attack took place on August 27 at Ms Hoisan's flat in Greenwich, south London, while their three-year-old daughter was present. Muzyka was subject to a non-molestation order at the time. He had stalked Ms Hoisan using a tracker hidden in their daughter's scooter.
After the stabbing, Muzyka took photographs of Ms Hoisan as she lay dying, then stabbed himself in the stomach after a man she had been on a second date with ran out to alert the police. Sentencing at the Old Bailey on Friday, Judge Simon Mayo KC described it as a "planned and sustained" attack on a "much-loved" mother in her own home.
The judge told Muzyka: "You stabbed her six times to the chest using a knife that you had purchased less than six hours earlier. Shortly beforehand, you conducted internet searches directed at identifying the most vulnerable areas of the human body, including the chest." He added: "I am sure you intended to kill her. In killing Halyna, you robbed her young daughter of her mother just days before her fourth birthday."
Judge Mayo said Muzyka's actions were driven by "jealousy, resentment and determination to exert control over Halyna even after your relationship had come to an end." Muzyka was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years.
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