A 'ruthless and calculating' girl has been jailed for 21 years for making an attempt to kill her good friend within the US with a poisoned cheesecake to steal her id.

Viktoria Nasyrova was discovered responsible of tried homicide by a New York jury in February.

The 47-year-old took the sedative-laced dessert to Olga Tsvyk's New York City house throughout an eyelash appointment in August 2016.

Nasyrova is alleged to have eaten two items of the cheesecake earlier than providing the third piece to the 35-year-old beautician.

Ms Tsyvk, who survived the incident, was present in a coma.

Prosecutors stated Nasyrova had scattered capsules round Ms Tsyvk to make it appear to be a suicide, earlier than taking her passport and valuables.

The cheesecake was later discovered to include a potent sedative referred to as phenazepam.

Nasyrova was arrested after her DNA was discovered on the field.

The trial was advised the 2 girls look related, with darkish hair and related pores and skin tones.

Nasyrova was sentenced on Wednesday.

"A ruthless and calculating con artist is going to prison for a long time for trying to murder her way to personal profit and gain," Queens district lawyer Melinda Katz stated in a press release.

Nasyrova's lawyer, Jose Nieves, stated they might be interesting in opposition to the conviction and sentence.

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Before her arrest, Nasyrova was additionally on Interpol's pink record after being accused of fleeing Russia for killing her neighbour in 2014.

She was allegedly caught on CCTV with the girl's physique within the passenger seat of her automobile.

Nasyrova denied that allegation in a 2017 interview with CBS and claimed the photographs have been faux and that she was framed by police.

She additionally advised the New York Post she had labored as a dominatrix in New York - and instructed the cheesecake incident was meals poisoning.

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