Oleg Sviridov (left) and Vyacheslav Matrosov
(right) were friends prior to the incident. Matrosov
said he discovered evidence of his friend's alleged
crimes while they were drinking together

Russian father who forced his ​paedophile ​best friend to dig his own grave and kill himself after ​discovering he had sexually abused​ his daughter, six, is freed from jail a year early after serving just six months

Vyacheslav Matrosov, 35, has been released early after a wave of sympathy. His friend Oleg Sviridov repeatedly sexually abused his daughter, then aged six 

By Edward Era Barbacena

A distraught father who forced his best friend to kill himself when he discovered the man had sexually abused his daughter has been freed from jail after only six months.

Vyacheslav (Slava) Matrosov, 35, was jailed for 18 months but now has been allowed home a year early.

There was a wave of sympathy in Russia for the father who forced child sex abuser Oleg Sviridov, 32, to dig his own grave in a forest.

The paedophile died soon afterwards following a fight with Matrosov, who secretly buried his corpse in the unmarked grave. 

Investigators concluded that Sviridov took his own life during the forest fracas in which Matrosov made clear his fury over the sex abuse.

Sviridov had repeatedly sexually abused Matrosov's daughter, then aged six.

Upon being released from prison early, the father posted a picture with his wife Natalya, 35, with the words: 'Home. Love very much.'

Matrosov was initially held on suspicion of murder but this triggered a public outcry in Russia.

In April he was convicted of 'inciting' his friend 'to suicide' by Krasnoglinsky Court in Samara, and sentenced to 18 months in a strict Russian penal colony.

The close friendship broke down when the father found sickening and graphic footage on his friend's mobile showing Sviridov forcing his daughter to perform a sex act on him.

The girl, now nine, was heard pleading: 'Oleg, that's enough, I can't take it any more. I want to go home'.

They supported him for 'saving our children by ridding us of a child sex attacker'.

Prominent TV journalist and former Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak told her followers: 'All parents are standing up for the paedophile's killer.'

Matrosov was charged with 'inciting a person to suicide... by threats or abuse'.

Matrosov, 35, forced his former best friend to dig
his own grave in the Samara region of Russia

Sources close to the case said that detailed forensic evidence showed that Matrosov had not stabbed Sviridov in a forest where the dead man's body was found later in the makeshift grave.

Oleg Sviridov

There are claims Sviridov was given an ultimatum to go to the police and confess to sexually abusing the girl, or face the father's wrath.

A relative said Sviridov was seen badly beaten on the day he disappeared in September 2021, more than a week before his body was found in the makeshift grave near Vintai village.

Two other children are feared to have been abused by Sviridov.