A visual artist who worked on blockbuster films has been sentenced to at least 26 years in prison for stabbing his parents to death. Sergey Koudryavtsev became furious at his parents Tatiana and Vladimir for opening the window and letting his pet mastiff Enzo get cold.
The 48-year-old, who worked on the final two Lord of Rings films after completing a maths degree, flew into a rage at his mum and dad, stabbing them in their West Kensington home.
He surrendered himself to police a few days after the May 20, 2018 attack, giving his parent's address.
Police stormed the property and were confronted with a bloody scene.
His mother, a 68-year-old university lecturer, was found in the bathtub, while her 69-year-old maths and physics professor husband lay in the bedroom.
Koudryavtsev, a Russian national who gained New Zealand citizenship while working for Peter Jackson's Wellington-based studio Weta Digital, represented himself in court on October 3.
He pleaded guilty and turned down the chance to argue possible defences, such as loss of control.
“I believe I was in control when I did it”, he told Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC, the London Evening Standard reported.
“I was trying to turn off the rage.
“If you asked me the day before would I do it, I would say definitely not. But on the day I did it, I was fully conscious that was exactly what I was doing.”
The court heard he had emigrated to New Zealand in 2002 and worked on visual effects for the Lord of the Rings films before moving back to East Horsley, Surrey with his wife.
While living in New Zealand, the defendant got a two dogs called Boris and Nikita and when the former became ill and had to be put down, he got a mastiff puppy Enzo.
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