Family massacre tragedy

20th August 2011

Authorities must wait before deciding on the fate of the man

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A Polish man is being held under armed guard in a Channel Island hospital suspected of slaughtering his wife, his children and three others, before trying to kill himself.

Jersey police said 30-year-old Damien Rzeszowski had been charged with murdering six people, including his 18-month-old son Kacper and his daughter Kinga, aged five. Rzeszowski’s father-in-law, a best friend and her daughter were the other victims.

In one of the bloodiest crimes to strike the peaceful and prosperous islands in the English Channel, all the dead were killed in a frenzied knife attack at a party. After the attack eyewitnesses said the Nowy Sacz man then stabbed himself a number of times in the chest, in ...

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