A woman who married a contract killer without knowing his sinister past was murdered by her husband who was seen carrying away her corpse in a suitcase.

Alexander Anufriev was jailed for 15 years for strangling his wife after she had repeatedly begged police in the Russian city of Cheboksary for help, saying her life was in danger.

Chilling video footage shows Anufriev, 46, carrying away the corpse of his wife Anna Ovchinnikova, 37, who was the mother of his two children.

He loaded the suitcase into a waiting taxi driven by a former cell mate from prison.

In the aftermath of the 2018 murder it was believed that she knew of his previous two convictions as a hired assassin and believed she could tame the killer.

In the aftermath of the 2018 murder it was believed that she knew of his previous two convictions as a hired assassin and believed she could tame the killer.

And by an oversight his name was not on a police database of killers released from prison so officers did not realise he was a convicted murderer when she complained about his threats, it was claimed.