Barry Ping (left) abd Ganna Ziuzina (right) were married in Ukraine in 2007
Police investigating the suspicious death of a British businessman in Ukraine have concluded he was the victim of a hit and run.
Barry Pring, 47, was struck by a car outside a restaurant while celebrating his first wedding anniversary.
But his friends have claimed he was murdered by his wife, Ganna Ziuzina.
She was dubbed the ‘Black Widow’ after a British coroner ruled that Mr Pring was ‘unlawfully killed’.
However, a new investigation in Ukraine says he died in a traffic accident, The Times reported.
The Coroner’s ruling said the ‘speeding car’ hit the IT entrepreneur after he was ‘tricked’ into stepping into the road while drunk.
A fresh inquest next month will hear that Ukrainian police no longer think he was murdered because they believe a witness who claimed to see a car hit Mr Pring had lied – and may not even have been there at all.
Officers say the witness - Svetlana Dudko - was not spoken to by them on the night of the accident, and Ms Ziuzina's supporters say she was actually tracked down by private investigators hired by his family.
Mr Pring met his 28-year-old wife, a pole dancer, on a dating website and they married in Kiev in 2007. They were marking their first anniversary on February 16, 2008, with a dinner in the village of Mila near the Ukrainian capital when he was hit.
Ganna Ziuzina (pictured above) was alleged to have only been interested in Mr Pring 'for his money'
His widow and his family have fought a legal battle over his £1.5million estate.
Shaughan Pring, his brother, told an inquest in January 2017 that Miss Ziuzina ‘was only interested in Barry for his money’.
