Vladimir Putin has pardoned and freed from jail a twisted murderer who hammered to death his own gran - because he fought in Ukraine.
Killer Dmitry Karyagin, 36, was jailed for fourteen-and-a-half years for killing his 87-year-old grandmother Zoya Anastasenko to death with a hammer in 2014 after forcing her to sell her flat.
Karyagin was granted the amnesty because the convicted man served - and survived - six months at the frontline in his illegal war fighting Ukraine.
