Russian Dad Who Forced His Pedophile Best Friend to Dug His Own Grave and Kill Himself, Released From Prison

After only six months in prison, a distraught father who forced his best friend to kill himself after discovering the man had sexually abused his daughter was released from prison.

Oleg Sviridov (left) and Vyacheslav Matrosov (right) were friends prior to the incident. Matrosov said he discovered evidence of his friend's alleged crimes while they were drinking together — Oleg Sviridov (left) and Vyacheslav Matrosov (right) were friends prior to the incident. Matrosov said he discovered evidence of his friend’s alleged crimes while they were drinking together

Vyacheslav (Slava) Matrosov, 35, was sentenced to 18 months in prison but was released a year early.

In Russia, there was an outpouring of sympathy for the father who forced child sex abuser Oleg Sviridov, 32, to dig his own grave in the woods.

The paedophile died soon after after a fight with Matrosov, who buried his body in an unmarked grave.

Investigators concluded that Sviridov committed suicide during the forest brawl in which Matrosov vented his rage over the sex abuse.

Sviridov had sexually abused Matrosov’s six-year-old daughter on multiple occasions.

After being released from prison early, the father posted a photo of himself with his wife Natalya, 35, with the caption: ‘Home.’ ‘I adore you.’

Matrosov was initially detained on suspicion of murder, which sparked a public outcry in Russia.

Krasnoglinsky Court in Samara convicted him in April of ‘inciting’ his friend ‘to suicide,’ and sentenced him to 18 months in a strict Russian penal colony.

The father’s close friendship ended when he discovered sickening and graphic footage of Sviridov forcing his daughter to perform a sex act on him on his friend’s phone.

‘Oleg, that’s enough, I can’t take it any longer,’ the girl, now nine, was heard pleading. ‘I’m ready to go home.’

Matrosov, a former rocket engine factory worker, could have faced a 15-year prison sentence if charged with murder.

Matrovov received widespread public support in the Samara region after he was linked to the murder of paedophile Sviridov, and the case was widely publicised around the world.

Pribrezhnaya residents raised funds for his initial legal fees.

A petition signed by 2,500 people demanded that he be acquitted completely.

The body of Sviridov was found in a shallow grave he appeared to have dug himself
Grave of Russian paedophile stabbed to death by the victim’s father

They backed him because he was’saving our children by ridding us of a child sex attacker.’

Ksenia Sobchak, a prominent TV journalist and former Russian presidential candidate, told her followers, ‘All parents are standing up for the paedophile’s killer.’

Miss Sobchak, also known as Vladimir Putin’s “Goddaughter,” has fled abroad after facing arrest and imprisonment in the latest Kremlin media crackdown.

Matrosov was charged with ‘inciting someone to commit suicide… through threats or abuse.’

According to sources close to the case, detailed forensic evidence showed that Matrosov did not stab Sviridov in a forest where the dead man’s body was later discovered in a makeshift grave.

There are claims that Sviridov was given an ultimatum to either go to the police and confess to sexually abusing the girl, or face father’s wrath.

Matrosov, 35, forced his former best friend to dig his own grave in the Samara region of Russia

According to a relative, Sviridov was severely beaten on the day he vanished in September 2021, more than a week before his body was discovered in a makeshift grave near Vintai village.

Sviridov is also suspected of abusing two other children.