Story By: Anna Casap, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News

The decaying body of a 16-year-old girl who was forced to go to evening classes after she failed to win a place at a local college has been found after she was raped and murdered.

Teenager Yulia Vahova from the city of Tyumen in Siberia, Russia, had started going to the evening classes but one evening her parents realised she had not come home and was not answering her phone.

After failing to track her down they called the police, and on 3rd September, a day later, police and locals started searching for her.

The search eventually led them a week later to the flat of a suspect in a high-rise building on the Tkatsky passage of the city when detectives were shocked to find her dead body decomposing on the floor. She had been dead for several days, and the body had already started to decay.

Local media reported she had been raped after being lured inside and that the main suspect for the killing was the owner of the flat, 38-year-old Alexei Yarkov.

He is currently on the run and a federal arrest warrant has been issued.

Her mother said: “Previously, she never went anywhere without warning. On the night she vanished her phone was off, she did not get in touch with us either to say there was a problem.”

Neighbours claimed that the man was a drug dealer who occasionally had young people visiting, however friends of Yulia insisted that she had nothing to do with the drug scene.

One of the schoolgirl’s friends, whose name was not reported, told local media her friend had never used illegal substances. She said: “She did not dabble in drugs. She was a quiet and calm girl, she didn’t wish evil on anyone.”

The search for the alleged killer is currently underway.

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