Russian dad hacked to death his six kids, pregnant wife and mum over son's 'parrot haircut'

Oleg Belog

Oleg Belov told a court he killed his entire family during a savage ten-minutes because of his six-year-old son’s “parrot” haircut. Speaking during his trial in Russia, he told how his wife Yulia, 32, wanted to divorce him and said they had been arguing over his son's haircut.
He told the court: “She cut him like a parrot. I asked her "Are you kidding or what?’
“I tried to grab the hair clipper and a fight broke out.”
Belov says he then hit his wife twice before she ran screaming into a hallway and began knocking on the doors of his neighbours. As reported by The Sun, he went on to describe how his wife was “screaming to loud” and he was “very scared” because he did not want the authorities to take away his children. Belov admits killing his wife because he feared losing his children: adding: “I killed the children so they would stay mine".

Belov with his wife     

Belov with his kids

Prosecutors claim after killing his wife and children, he then went to his 73-year-old mum’s house where he stabbed her 21 times. Prosecutors say Belov murdered his wife in front of his children and then decided to kill them all in order to cover up the crime. Belov is facing life in prison after confessing to the mass murder of his family.
Russian police discovered the dismembered children - aged between seven and one - after several failed to show for school. All had been killed with an axe and their remains left in plastic bags, said police. The children were named as Alyona, seven, Fyodor, six, Sonya, five, Nikifor, three, Ilya, two, and Daria, one. Their mother was named as Zinaida, a lecturer in advanced mathematics at a local university.