Russian police have found a message in support of jailed members of the Pussy Riot band written in blood over dead bodies.

A lawyer for the punk group said the message was a provocation designed to discredit those who oppose the 2-year sentence handed down to them for performing in a Moscow church.

Authorities said the words “Free Pussy Riot” were written on a wall over the bodies of a 78-year-old woman, and her 38-year-old daughter in the city of Kazan.

Investigators have found no clear motives for the killing.

The women were believed to have been killed on Sunday or Monday just a week after a Moscow court convicted the band members of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” for their protest in the main Russian cathedral.

The sentence has been condemned by the many Western nations.

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