Story By: Lee Bullen, Sub-Editor: Marija Stojkoska,  Agency: Newsflash

A Russian man has been jailed for life for abducting a nine-year-old and raping and killing her to get back at her mother for breaking up with him.

Pavel Surkov, 35, lured little Valeria Pazukhina into the woods before raping and strangling her to death in September last year.

The victim’s body was found just 600 feet from her home in the western Russian region of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

Surkov encountered the victim in the street on her way home from school and lured her into the woods to ‘show her something’. As she knew the man as her mother’s ex-boyfriend, the girl did not suspect that anything was wrong and went with him.

CCTV footage shows the girl’s last moments as she walks alongside the man, later identified by her relatives as Surkov.

The pair entered the woods and arrived at an abandoned scrapyard where Surkov carried out the sick attack.

Her family raised the alarm when she failed to return home from school and her body was found by the police several hours later.

Autopsy results showed the young victim had been raped and strangled to death.

Surkov, who was previously convicted for burglary and battery, was detained the following morning while trying to take a bus out of town and still wearing his muddied clothes.

He reportedly said that he attacked the girl as revenge for her mother, Yulia Pazukhina, 30, breaking up with him.

The mother ended the brief two-month relationship after a domestic violence incident, according to her family.