Pomorskie

25th June 2010

He asked that his client not be condemned on the basis of the testimonies of people who, “Have received psychiatric treatment and who have repeatedly changed their testimony during the trial.”

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A fifty-year-old Gdansk woman was sentenced to life, with a minimum of twenty years, in prison this Thursday, the longest possible sentence for murder in Poland. “The evidence, in this case the crucial eye-witness testimony, show the accused planned this murder well,” prosecutor Dagmara Pohoska told the court.

Jolanta W-K was accused of murdering her partner, a wealthy businessman, back in 2001, shooting him in the head in their bed with the man’s own Smith & Wesson pistol as she feared he was about to ask her to move out.

For the defence, Stanislaw Jaworowski asked that the accused be acquitted as there is in fact no evidence against her. “There is no murder weapon, Slawomir K’s ...

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