Anzhelika Tartanova could not speak or coordinate her movements after her boyfriend beat her for trying to end their six-month relationship.
The brutality of the beating was such that the 33-year-old model was left with half her skull destroyed, and her attacker, Dmitry Kuzmin, a 41-year-old millionaire magnate, not only abandoned her in the street, but then impersonated her for a week using her phone to send messages to her friends and tell them she was fine.
The neurosurgeon who operated on her, Vyacheslav Smirnov, explained that the case was complex and serious because there was not only a subdural hematoma, but also damage to and destruction of the brain tissue itself.
Kuzmin was facing eight years in prison or being sent to fight in Ukraine, but he died of a heart attack before justice could hand down its sentence
