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A twisted female killer who got "sexual pleasure" from stabbing her victims has been jailed for 13 years.

Elena Lobacheva and four male "butchers" murdered 14 homeless people because they wanted to "clean" Moscow of "vagrants and drunks".

The 27-year-old claimed to have been inspired by 1998 Hollywood horror movie Bride of Chucky which involves a doll possessed by a mass murderer.

She also said she hero-worshipped notorious Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin.

Gang leader Pavel Voitov, 23, attempted a Nazi salute despite being handcuffed in court as he was sent down for a life sentence.

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Standing next to Lobacheva in the glass "cage", he wore a shirt emblazoned with the words "Only Hatred" .

Lobacheva told police after her arrest that "randomly stabbing the body of a dying human brought her pleasure compared to sexual pleasure".

The court was told she "loved" killing and she confessed to involvement in half the gang's murders.

A drunk carpenter killed by the gang was knifed 171 times, while others were repeatedly struck with hammers, the court was told.

Voitov and Lobacheva jointly killed a father with a hammer and knife.

His head was hit so hard that bits of his brain were found 16ft from his body.

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Two women were among their 14 victims. One, called Tatyana, was stabbed 40 times near Belarussky Station.

Gang member Vladislav Karatayev, 21, was jailed for 16 years by the Moscow court. Artur Nartsissov, 25, and Maxim Pavlov, 19, both received nine and a half year sentences.

Voitov said of Lobacheva: "It was clear that she loved murders and enjoyed watching them.

"She always spoke about torture and the dismembering of bodies.

"She laughed as we killed - it was clear as day that she loved it."

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Karatayev said of her: "It was clear for me that committing murder was pleasant for her.

"Both of them, Lobacheva and Voitov were absolutely calm and found pleasure in horrific murders."

When her flat was searched, police found five knives.

On her computer, officers discovered a step-by-step instruction to killing people as well as photos of her victims with their stomachs cut open and body parts cut off.

Folders titled 'Tenderness' and 'Need this' contained hundreds pictures and video recordings of torture and executions.

In a notebook she had recorded the number of knife wounds on the gang's victims' bodies.

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Prosecutor Yaroslav Myts gave a chilling assessment of the five killers.

"Members of this gang don't find anything strange in what they were doing," he said.

"Look at the number of stabs they were inflicting on helpless people.

"This shows they were enjoying it.

"It's not just hatred, they are maniacs."

He warned: "The worst thing is that these people have followers.

"After the gang was detained, one neo-Nazi online community was renamed to 'Support Pavel Voitov'."

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Lobacheva was an ardent follower of sickening serial killer Pichushkin, nicknamed the Chess Board Maniac, who murdered 49 people.

He was stopped with his arrest in 2006 before reaching his target of one victim for each of the 64 squares on a chessboard.

Earlier this year, from his cell in an Arctic penal colony, the monster made a similar claim to Lobacheva, saying that killing "brought me colossal pleasure".

"It is comparable to an orgasm," he said.

A female friend of Lobacheva, called Anastasia Soldatova, said: "We often discussed the beauty of death with Elena.

"Voitov and Lobacheva were keen on serial killers, they spoke a lot about maniac (Pichushkin) who was like an icon for them.

"They wanted to be like him."

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Lobacheva's flat was "messy and filthy", according to reports, even though her neighbours had described her as "polite and nice".

"There were horrible smells and personal belongings all over the flat' which she shared with a pet rabbit," it was reported.

She was nicknamed 'Chucky's Bride' after admitting being obsessed since childhood with the 1998 movie, starring Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, and Katherine Heigl.

Lobacheva had a tattoo linked to the movie on her arm.

Her mother Olga Lobacheva said she had no inkling of her daughter's bloodthirsty and murderous obsession.

"She's into drawing and growing plants," she said.

A female friend said: "They wore military style clothes: trousers, boots, all were armed.

"At first I even liked it, but later I got concerned that Pavel [Voitov] constantly had energy drinks and talked about murder all the time.

"Later Elena told me that she discussed the philosophy of murder with Pavel, and study maniac Pichushkin from a practical point of view."

The gang formed after meeting at a forum of "ultra radicals".

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They kept in contact using nicknames via sinister social media groups like one - now banned - called Time to Hate.

Here chilling messages were posted such as "Everything happens for the first time, like first love, first kiss, first sex, first kill"; "When you are near, the world becomes better. Love you, your Knife"; "I am not killing, I am cleaning up the world"; "Every moment of the day you can pick up a knife, go out and make the world better"; and "Love is finding the one and only who will go killing with you."

They murdered their victims in less than a year between 1am and 4am in derelict areas away from CCTV cameras.

The killings were conducted with "ultra cruelty", said prosecutors.

A body found near Belarussky railway station had 44 knife wounds; a victim killed in the Moscow Hippodrome was stabbed 51 times and suffered 18 hammer blows; another close to Begovaya metro station had 35 knife wounds; one more, near Workers village had two wounds inflicted by stones, and 46 knife wounds.

Pavlov told investigators: "Voitov was our authority.

"He was extremely cruel in day-to-day life, and very calm and composed during the murders.

"He often spoke about arranging a terrorist attack.

"Once when we walked past a station, he said it would have been so good to blow an explosive so that it hits as many people as possible, and how 'their bodies would fly in the air'.

"It was only Voitov who used a hammer to kill. He enjoyed killing."

Voitov -- who has an earlier conviction for defiling Jewish graves -- said of his perverted motivation: "I despise drunk people, this is why I killed them.

"I consider them to be biological waste."

The gang never stole from their victims and avoided posting incriminating evidence on the web.

Other victims were named as Alyona Shitik, Gennady Danilov, Nikolay Babin, Oleg Daikun and Stanislav Yevseev.