India, Jan. 2 -- A Russian flight attendant who fled to the United Arab Emirates in a desperate attempt to escape her alleged stalker was found brutally murdered in a luxury Dubai hotel - weeks after warning she feared she would be killed.

Anastasia Nikulina had recently relocated from St Petersburg to Dubai for a new job, hoping to start afresh after what friends described as nearly two years of stalking, abuse and terror. She was murdered at the age of 25 by her former lover and stalker.

Nikulina was discovered dead in her room at the five-star Voco Bonnington Dubai hotel, having suffered 15 stab wounds to her neck, torso and limbs. Hotel staff found her body a few hours after the killing, lying in a pool of blood, according to a repo...