A Russian father who killed his 'paedophile' friend after finding footage of him 'raping his eight-year-old girl' has been released from custody amid calls not to charge him with murder.
Factory worker Vyacheslav M, 34, was drinking with his friend Oleg Sviridov, 32, when he allegedly saw video of his daughter being abused on Sviridov's phone.
Vyacheslav immediately confronted Sviridov who fled, but he was eventually tracked down by the distraught father who stabbed him to death.
The killer has now been freed from jail and put under house arrest for two months pending an investigation.
Normally suspected killers would not be freed but there has been an outpouring of public support for the father, including from prominent journalists on Russia's tightly-controlled broadcast news.
Law enforcement say that Sviridov's phone contained more footage of him abusing other children in Vintai village in Russia's southwestern Samara region.
The body of alleged paedophile Oleg Sviridov, 32, was found near Vintai village in Russia's Samara region after the father of a child he abused stabbed him to death
Vyacheslav M., 34, is the father of an eight year old girl who was allegedly raped by Sviridov, a friend of Vyacheslav
Sviridov (left) and Vyacheslav (right) were friends and Vyacheslav discovered evidence of his friend's crimes while they were drinking together
It has since been reported that one of his alleged victims was the daughter of his former live-in partner.
'The woman had a daughter from her first marriage,' a friend told Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.
'Now it has turned out he was abusing the child.'
The ex-lover did not know anything about it, said the woman friend who had known Sviridov for more than 15 years.
'She is a very good caring mother,' she said. 'I can imagine what she feels like now the truth has come out ...
'He was constantly seen with the girls, the daughter of his partner and Vyacheslav's older daughter, in the village. It never crossed anyone's mind what he was doing with children.'
Sviridov's body was discovered by police on Thursday, more than a week after Vyacheslav had seen the abusive video.
Vyacheslav had reported the rapes to local police who had launched a manhunt for Sviridov but the father managed to track down the
