That is the British bike owner dealing with jail in Finland for hacking a pensioner to dying with an axe.
Garo Jlitakryan, 32, claims he lashed out on the 75-year-old in self-defence after being tied down and raped by the older man at his residence in Seinajoki on July 29 final yr.
The Londoner instructed a court docket in South Ostrobothnia, north west Finland, they met at a spa earlier that day whereas he was within the nation on a charity bike journey for Assist the Heroes earlier than being invited again to the flat.
Jlitakryan, who faces not less than 10 years in jail if convicted over the alleged assault, stated: ’He instructed me that if I helped him, he may give me sexual favours, however I didn’t need sexual favours I simply wished to relaxation and cost my telephone.
‘We ate lunch collectively, which tasted horrible, then I fell asleep. After I wakened, I used to be tied with bandages, I couldn’t transfer correctly.
‘He then dedicated sexual acts on me, and I couldn’t escape. The ordeal was horrible. When it was over, he rolled subsequent to me.
‘Then he began loud night breathing and I made a decision to flee. I went to the kitchen and minimize my ties there.’
Jlitakryan instructed the court docket the pensioner additionally wakened and blocked off the exits by standing within the kitchen doorway holding an axe, saying no one would consider him if he complained.
He added: ‘The person had an axe in his hand, I had no alternative however to defend myself. It was both him or me.’
The British defendant stated the pair wrestled over the axe earlier than he managed to grab it and hit the older man twice with it.
Chatting with police when he was arrested, he stated: ‘The primary blow was after I supposed to hit him, however to not kill him.
‘I slipped and the axe slipped from my hand.’
Prosecutors declare the person was struck as much as six instances.
Jlitakryan was ultimately arrested by police on August 17 working at a husky farm virtually 300 miles away after the automobile was discovered deserted in a ditch, the Day by day Mail studies.
The alleged sufferer’s daughter described on court docket how she raised the alarm after failing to listen to from him.
Police ultimately discovered her father on August 14.
She stated she didn’t consider her father was ‘able to attacking anybody due to his sick well being’.
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