Olewnik family pain continues

12th March 2010

The Olewnik family hope that while many questions remain unanswered, they can try to move on

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Any forlorn hopes the family of Krzysztof Olewnik may have harboured that he may still be alive have finally been extinguished after DNA tests confirmed that the body exhumed from a Plock cemetery was that of the murdered businessman.

Scientists carried out the tests after news broke that the body lying in the grave may not be that of Olewnik, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2001 in perhaps the most notorious criminal case in the history of post-communist Poland.

“It was an extremely thorough genetic examination carried out several times in order to eliminate any doubt,” said Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, the justice minister. “The probability that the exhumed body does not belong to ...

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