Nanny who beheaded child in Moscow ‘spurned by lover’

The babysitter who beheaded a four-year-old girl in Moscow carried out the shocking murder after learning her boyfriend was married, according to reports.

Police arrested Gyulchekhra Bobokulova — a mother-of-three — after she was seen waving the severed head of the small child outside a subway station.

The woman was witnessed holding the severed head and shouting “I am a terrorist” in Russian, although most of what she says is incomprehensible.

In some of the videos the woman is tackled by men who appear to be police.

Conflicting reports have emerged about what led to the murder.

Some say the woman had just discovered her husband in Uzbekistan had started a new family while she was away working in Russia, minding the child who had learning difficulties.

Others say the 38-year-old discovered that her boyfriend had actually been married and offered to make her his second wife.

Escorted by heavily armed police, Bobokulova showed officers the Moscow flat where she strangled Nastya Meshcheryakova, before cutting off her head with a kitchen knife.

The little girl’s remains were left in her cot and the apartment was then set on fire.

Investigators said they were trying to determine the suspect’s prime motive. She appeared to have waited until the parents and an older child had left the apartment before killing the younger child.

The nanny reportedly told police that she was haunted by ‘voices’ on the day of the murder.

In shocking scenes, the Burkha-clad woman was seen walking the streets of Moscow brandishing the head of the dead girl for an hour before she was detained by police.

The macabre episode was caught on camera by passers-by, with footage showing the unnamed woman in a black hijab wandering around in the street holding an infant’s severed head high in the air.

One reporter said she had heard the woman screaming “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great).

“I was on my way to the metro station from home,” Polina Nikolskaya, the reporter, told Reuters.

“She was standing near the metro entrance and caught my attention because she was screaming Allahu Akbar. I saw that she had a bloodied head in her arms, but I thought it was not real.

“People in the crowd said it was real.”