Black Widow’s living like Queen of Sheba but we’ll get justice Family vow on ‘murder’ Brit
SUNDAY MIRROR
A BRIDE accused of having a hand in her husband’s death is living “like the Queen of Sheba”, the victim’s furious family said yesterday.
Former lapdancer Anna Ziuzina, dubbed the Black Widow, is shacked up in a £ 700,000 Spanish villa with a new lover.
Her dead husband – British businessman Barry Pring – was mown down in the Ukraine by a car doing 80mph in 2008.
An inquest last week ruled Devon-born Barry, 47, was unlawfully killed – and heard claims Ziuzina, 38, was behind it.
Now Barry’s brother Shaughan, 54, has vowed to continue a nineyear battle for justice which has already cost the family £200,000.
He told the Sunday Mirror: “She’s living like the Queen of Sheba. The Ukrainian police have done nothing – they’re not going to do anything now, especially with the corruption we’re facing from some of them out there.”
BUMPKIN
Spelling out his determination to get to the bottom of what happened, he added: “I don’t think she realised the quiet brother down in Devon, the country bumpkin married for 30-odd years, would take this on like we did. She totally underestimated us.”
The inquest in Exeter ruled millionaire Barry was “tricked” into standing in the road just moments before the car – with no lights on and stolen number plates – smashed into him.
The inquest heard claims that Ziuzina left him standing there after going back to a restaurant to retrieve a dropped glove.
Peter Clifford, best man at the couple’s Kiev wedding, told the inquest: “There is no reasonable doubt in my mind that Barry was murdered, nor is there any reasonable doubt in my mind Anna Ziuzina either arranged for, or was complicit in, his murder.”
And Barry’s mum Irene said: “We are sure Anna had some involvement in Barry’s death in order to inherit money or property.” Ziuzina was granted legal aid to fight for assets from Barry’s estate. She is now in Marbella with British property and fashion mogul Ivan Lister, 48, and their daughter, three. Barry met Ziuzina online in 2006. They wed in January 2007 and she was pictured lazing by a pool at his parents’ home later that year.
Barry was killed outside Kiev shortly after his first wedding anniversary.
Ahead of the inquest, Devon and Cornwall Police said Ziuzina was “probably” in Spain. The media traced her on Friday.
Hitting out at Kiev police, Shaughan said: “The Ukrainian police is doing sweet f*** all. Certain members are corrupt. Certain members are totally incompetent. It’s only because we pursued it that they reluctantly started to do something.”
He also accused the Foreign Office of dragging its heels – though former Prime Minister David Cameron did write to Ukrainian authorities in 2013.
Shaughan called on current PM Theresa May to pile further pressure on Kiev. He said: “The British Government need to demand that our police take the case over.”
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: “We have provided support and advice since 2008. Our sympathies remain with the family at this difficult time.”
Ziuzina has previously said she gave three statements to police in Ukraine and did not “believe I can add anything further”.
But Shaughan said the family would only be happy when Barry’s killer was jailed.
He added: “That’s the only time we’ll get closure.”