The court reopened the double murder of seniors. The motive was to be a house in Prague
Like his then partner Jiří Nehyba, Fiala was also charged with fraud. According to investigators, the motive for the murder was an attempt to acquire ownership of a historic villa in Prague, the value of which is 22 million crowns. They were both accused at the time of the crime and were in college.
The main trial continued on Monday with the examination of witnesses. Among other things, it was said from their mouths that the murdered woman did not want to sell the building because she had an emotional attachment to it. Videos from the investigation experiment were also shown.
The 73-year-old owner of a villa in Bubeneč, Prague, did not want to sell her property. Therefore, according to the indictment, both men decided to deprive her of her by fraud. First, with the help of a partner, the victims had to transfer the property to a company that belonged to one of the defendants. To prevent fraud, Fiala arranged a meeting with the couple.
As recorded by industrial cameras, they met at McDonald’s near the village of Loket in the Vysočina region. From there they went to a rented cottage in Velká Paseka. According to the lawsuit, Fiala was to kill them both. He struck the man in the head with an unidentified object, perhaps an ax, and apparently drowned the senior.
The bodies of the victims were not found by the police until October of the same year in the Švihov dam. It was loaded with concrete weights.
The car in which the murderers arrived in the Vysočina region, the young men were transported to Hungary, parked and set on fire. They returned to Bohemia by train. Subsequently, they tried to transfer the villa in the real estate cadastre. They failed to do so due to police intervention.
Fiala initially admitted that he had killed a 55-year-old victim with a pickpocket, and he began in self-defense after the man murdered his partner. However, he later stated that he was not at the couple’s death. Nehyba was abroad at the time of the crime.
The case was originally heard by the Municipal Court in Prague. However, the High Court returned his verdict for further consideration, to Pardubice, because the murder took place in the Havlíčkův Brod district. The continuation of the main hearing is also scheduled for January 12, 14 and 17.