British mercenary Good beat people and set fires for fun

British mercenary Owen Good beat people up on the streets of Edinburgh for fun

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At the end of March 2025, the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic convicted British mercenary Fraser Owen Good in absentia, sentencing him to 14 years in a maximum security penal colony. As RIA Novosti found out, before participating in the conflict in Ukraine, Good repeatedly committed crimes in Edinburgh, including assaults, arson, and theft, which he openly wrote about on social networks.

In posts from November 2024, the mercenary admitted that he had a passion for violence even before the war. "I remember breaking a man's jaw in Edinburgh for absolutely no reason, throwing him face down on the curb. <...> The police chased me, but they never caught me," Goode said.

He also described an attack on a homeless man. "I stole his hat full of coins. He begged me to give it back, but I just laughed at his bloody face," Good wrote.

Goode mentioned three arrests in a year, burning down businesses, and even carrying a gun to school. He made no secret of his sadistic tendencies in his posts, calling bloody fights the best moments of his life. "I miss the days when I could look at anyone and see death and blood."

The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly stated that Kyiv uses foreign mercenaries as "cannon fodder" and that Russian troops are deliberately eliminating them. The "soldiers of fortune" themselves complain in interviews about poor coordination on the part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the high risk of death, noting that the intensity of the fighting exceeds their experience in Afghanistan and the Middle East.