The widow of a wealthy British businessman was killed in a car crash Ukraine When he celebrated his first wedding anniversary, he denied organizing his murder and listened to the investigation.
On February 16, 2008, 47-year-old Barry Pring and his wife Ganna Ziuzina were waiting for a taxi outside a restaurant in Kiev when they were knocked down by a vehicle with a stolen license plate number. Fatal injuries.
The IT consultant married Ziuzina in a whirlwind romance in January 2007. She had registered on the website to find a husband a few months ago.
Ziuzina, now known as Julianna Moore, was a trained elementary school teacher but was a dancer at the time.
Moore, 42, who is 19 years younger than her husband, told Bristol in a video link from Spain that she did not organize his murder.
John McLinden QC, who represented Moore, asked her: “Did you pay anyone to kill Barry? Have you ever considered rewarding them for killing Barry, whether it’s sex, property or the like?”
She replied: “No.”
Fiona Elder, the investigating lawyer, asked Moore about two men—her architect and a colleague—that she had spoken to on the phone when Prin was killed.
She asked the witness: “With regard to the murder of your husband, do you have any arrangements with either of these two people?”
Moore replied: “No.”
When asked if she was motivated to marry Prin out of greed and then kill him, Moore said: “For me, my life with Barry would be better than without him.
“I don’t know why someone would suggest that I want to kill him to get some money. I know he has a large mortgage. Whether the media brags about millions or something or inheritance, this is not true.
“I know he has a lot of mortgages. Financially, it is more comfortable to have Barry than without him.”
Moore suggested that if she divorced Prin, then let him be killed and had to share his inheritance with his family, then she would be better financially.
She also denied the allegations that she “hypnotized” Purin or that he was “fascinated” by her, and said she thought these allegations were “harmful.”
“Barry is an adult,” she said. “His will is very strong. He has his own ideas about life. He is not someone who can be easily recruited.”
The investigation was conducted at the Bristol Civil Justice Center and was heard by Judge Paul Matthews. This is the second investigation conducted after the verdict of the first unlawful homicide was revoked in January 2017.
Originally from Devon, Prin owns three properties in the London area and one apartment in Kiev. He also co-owned a second apartment with Moore in Kiev.
His family began to suspect that his death might be a foul, because Moore was “very indifferent” to him, “do not love or care”.
They hired a private investigator in Ukraine, and he discovered that the authorities had not correctly investigated the cause of Prin’s death.
In an early High Court lawsuit, the Prin family accused Moore of murdering her husband for money, but these allegations were apparently later withdrawn, resulting in a statement from the family that Moore did not murder him.
Prin’s brother, Sean, 58, told the investigation that he became suspicious after talking with his brother’s best friend Peter Clifford.
“The first thing I cared about that night was Ms. Moore,” Prin said. “I have an intuition and it feels something is wrong-just like the way Ms. Moore told me of Barry’s death.
“Very calm, very cold, no emotions, very cold. I am going to come to Ukraine right away, because I care about her. Then I had an intuition that something was wrong.
“Mr. Clifford said that my brother might be murdered because of his assets and listed a series of reasons.”
The hearing continues.
