Exeter Rapist Returned to Poland

23rd July 2008

Jakub Tomczak

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British authorities have returned Jakub Tomczak, a Poznań native convicted of raping and causing grievous bodily harm to a 48-year-old Exeter woman, to serve two consecutive life sentences in a Polish prison. Tomczak’s return has posed an unprecedented problem for Polish authorities, as Poland is obliged to honour the British court’s decision, but the law here provides a maximum of 12 years’ imprisonment for rape. In addition, life sentences cannot be commuted to less than 25 years in Poland, while the Exeter court that sentenced him allowed Tomczak to apply for early release after serving only nine years.

British authorities have returned Jakub Tomczak, a Poznań native convicted of r ...

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