Sick students steal corpse from grave then sever head and boil remains

Three student vets raided a grave and stole the corpse of a woman before severing her head and fingers and boiling the human remains. 

Sick students committed horrible acts because they were interested in black magic

Despite revulsion at their crime, females Anastasiya Burlakova, 20 and Natalia Ovcharova, 18, along with male Konstantin Zadvinsky, 19, walked free from a Russian court and will be allowed to continue their studies. 

They cooked the remains in their Russian college hostel in November last year, intending to turn the skull into an ashtray, the court was told. 

The woman had died aged 84 in January 2014 and her relatives have expressed outrage at the "soft" three year suspended jail sentences imposed by a judge in Novocherkassk, where the crime happened. 

The trio brought the remains back to their hostel, cutting off the head and fingers, which they intended to use as fortune telling runes. 

They boiled the head, and stashed the rest of the corpse under a bed. 

All three confessed that they were deeply interested in black magic and mysterious things.

Fellow students reported an unpleasant smell from the room in the dormitory block and called police , leading to the discovery of the corpse. 

The students dug up graves for body parts

Burlakova told police in her interrogation: "We wanted to get a human skull."
Asked why, she said: "Either just to keep it on display, or to make an ash-tray."
Zadvinsky said: "We dug the grave and cut off the head and fingers...to make an ashtray."
A police source said the male student used a spade to sever the head.
"He confessed that he was scared of god when doing all this so he was praying in his mind while he went about it," he said.
The source added that "the parents of all students were in deep shock and stress".
A police source also said that Zadvinsky confessed to an interest in ancient German religion, and he needed runes for fortune telling.
He liked to spend time at the city cemetery "to calm him down".
Burlakova confessed that she liked going to the cemetery while Ovcharova admitted she slept near graves with her friends.

The student vets hung around graveyards

 The students were spared jail because they had no criminal records.

Their teachers at the veterinary department of Novocherkassk College of Industrial Technologies and Management gave them positive references.
The judge also noted they had cooperated with investigators.
Relatives of the unnamed dead woman are shocked and have submitted a claim for "moral damages" and launched an appeal seeking 900,000 roubles compensation - £9,400.