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Will Stewart & Kelly-Ann Mills

English teacher 'hanged son, 4, with her tights while husband went out jogging'

A mum-of-four has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her youngest son while his father and two sisters were out jogging.

Lyubov Melnikova allegedly refused to let her husband and children into their home in the Russian town of Pushkino, near Moscow, when they got back.

Local reports claim the 43-year-woman, who works as a teacher at a local school, used her tights to hang her child.

She told her teenage daughters, 13 and 14, to wait in the street while her husband Vasily Melnikov went inside the house and found his son.

He called the emergency services and tried to resuscitate his child while he waited for them to arrive.

The mum-of-four has been arrested (VK.com)

His wife “remained rooted to the spot” and “could not explain anything”, reported Life in Russia.

Melnikova, who also has another son aged 19, has been detained suspected of murdering the child.

Ivan was just four-years-old when he died (VK.com)

The Russian Investigative Committee released a statement about the incident.

It said: “The investigative department of Pushkino town, Moscow region, has detained a local resident, 43, suspected of murdering her son, four."

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