A girl was handed a 21-year jail sentence after she tried to kill a beautician with a cheesecake laced with poison.
Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, was discovered responsible in February of second-degree tried homicide and first-degree tried assault after she attacked buddy Olga Tsvyk.
The Queens County District Legal professional stated Nasyrova tried to Tsvyk with the poison-laced dessert in an try and steal her id.
Proof used within the case confirmed the New York resident visited her supposed sufferer at house and supplied her a chunk of cheesecake she had introduced together with her.
The cake was laced with a extremely potent sedative that shortly had Tsvyk feeling sick and inflicting her to faint.
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After the sentence was confirmed, Tsvyk stated: "God gave me life when Viktoria Nasyrova tried to finish my life. For her, it was a simple factor to attempt to take the lifetime of one other individual.
"It was a simple factor to achieve the belief of one other individual after which take every part from that individual... it was simple for her to steal. It was simple for her to kill."
The prosecutors claimed Nasyrova had supposed to homicide the beautician, who shared the identical "darkish hair, the identical complexion and different related bodily traits," to steal her id.
The DA's workplace stated Tsvyk's "final reminiscence was of seeing Nasyrova strolling round her room," earlier than she misplaced consciousness.
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The lady was discovered the next morning in mattress surrounded by drugs "as if she had tried to kill herself" and was instantly taken to the hospital.
The DA stated federal regulation enforcement brokers discovered each the drugs and the cheesecake leftover contained the sedative Phenazepam, a robust benzodiazepine routinely used to deal with anxiousness, epilepsy and sleeping problems in .
Queens County District Legal professional Melinda Katz stated on the time of conviction: "Nasyrova laced a slice of cheesecake with a lethal drug so she may steal her unsuspecting sufferer’s most useful possession, her id. Luckily, her sufferer survived and the poison led proper again to the offender."
When she returned house from the hospital, Tsvyk discovered her passport, work allow and £2,412 ($3,000) have been lacking.
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Nasyrova's lawyer, Jose Nieves, filed an enchantment to problem the size of the sentence, telling CNN that 21 years is "extreme and inappropriate given Ms Nasryrova’s, life circumstances, her psychological sickness historical past, household assist, and her traumatic experiences whereas residing in the USA.”
He stated the enchantment will "deal with authorized procedural errors and evidentiary points that occurred throughout her trial."
Whereas Phenazepam is prescribed in , the drug "doesn't presently have an accepted medical use in the USA.
In keeping with the Division of Justice, the drug is usually illegally traded for leisure use in each the USA and the UK.
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