The District Court in Łódź sentenced to 26 years in prison a 36-year-old accused of a brutal murder of an 82-year-old woman. The prosecutor's office found that the murder motif was “robbery and sexual”. After the crime, the man tried to lead to a gas explosion in the apartment to cover the traces.
Key facts:
- The crime took place in September 2024 in Ozorków in the Łódź Voivodeship. Residents of one of the blocks decided to look into the neighbor's apartment. They found her dead on the couch.
- Monitoring recordings helped to determine that before her death a woman was walking in the company of a younger man who offered her help in making shopping. The attacker – as the investigation was established – killed a woman, and then wanted to lead to gas explosion in the premises.
- On Monday, the District Court in Łódź unlawfully sentenced him to 26 years in prison.
The court found the 36-year-old guilty of murder with special cruelty and attempted gas explosion. – A protective measure decided against him in the form of placing the perpetrator in a psychiatric institution after the penalty in a prison – Janusz Tomczak, head of the District Prosecutor's Office in Zgierz, in which the investigation was completed.
The decision of the Łódź court is unlawful.
He helped an elderly woman to bring shopping, then he killed
The incident occurred on September 6 in Ozorków. Residents of one of the blocks decided to look into the neighbor's apartment. They found a dead woman lying on the couch.
While looking for the perpetrator of the murder, urban monitoring was reviewed, among others. It resulted that the woman was walking towards the house in the company of a younger man in the morning.
– Directly in front of the block in which the woman lived, he offered her help in bringing shopping. The old lady agreed to the proposal, the 35-year-old brought bags to the room. He received PLN 10 for a favor. He noticed that there is still PLN 200 in the woman's portfolio. He demanded to spend money, and when the victim refused, he attacked her – the spokesman of the Łódź District Prosecutor's Office Krzysztof Kopania described the course, pointing out that it had a drastic course.
The suspect – according to the prosecutor – began to stew his victim and inflicted her numerous stab wounds. The attacker, leaving the apartment, took the money found in the portfolio, lying in the laptop room, as well as a watch and jewelry.
He cut the gas supply cable
Investigators found that the 35-year-old wanted to lead to gas explosion in the apartment to cover the traces of the assault.
– he turned on the electric oven and cut the gas supply cable from the cylinder to the stove. As it turned out, after finding the woman's body, the cylinder was twisted – said Krzysztof Kopania.
After escaping from the crime scene, the suspect returned to his apartment only on the night of Friday to Saturday. During the interrogation, he said that he sold a stolen laptop and drunk money. He also allocated money stolen for alcohol. It was not possible to recover the jewelry robbed after the murder. The suspect claims that he threw her out.
Author/author: BŻ/GP
Source: tvn24.pl
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