Murder of a woman and rape of a mother: Ex-police officer appealed against the sentence
The 36-year-old man did not participate in the announcement of the final verdict last fall, and it was not clear whether he would like to file an appeal. The public prosecutor, who asked for 30 years behind bars for the man, did not use the option of appeal. Wenig said that in addition to the defendant, two other damages appealed.
The ex-policeman made a living as a taxi driver after being released from the security force. He attacked a neighbor in May 2019 in Modřany, Prague, according to the indictment “intending to realize his sexually violent ideas consisting mainly of raping a woman and then cutting her”. He attacked the fifty-six-year-old woman with two knives and other tools. He then set fire to her apartment to cover his tracks. Firefighters extinguished the fire in time, evacuating 81 residents from the block of flats.
Attacking a neighbor the man’s previous deeds, for which he is now serving a seven-year prison sentence, have been downgraded. According to the already valid part of the sentence, in 2015 he attacked a woman in his car, whom he strangled, beat her in the face and took her purse. In 2018, after sex, he attacked a prostitute, broke her nose and strangled her. He also raped an acquaintance as well as his mother, which is why the man’s full name cannot be released to protect the victims. He also made death threats to his mother and sent her text messages saying “you suck” or “I want to kill you”.
A sadomasochist
According to the court, there is no doubt that all the acts were committed by the defendant. But the Trial Chamber had to deal with the question whether the man seemed to act in his actions, whether his behavior affected the meaning of the meth, which he had previously applied – in such a case it would be possible to punish only for the crime of drunkenness. The court favored the conclusions of the review report, according to which the man is a sadomasochist. The trial was based on the fact that the man knew what states meth got him into and still abused it. Therefore, drug and sexological treatment in a constitutional form is part of the verdict.
On April 29, 2021, the former Prague policeman stood before the tribunal of the Municipal Court in Prague.
Author: ČTK / Roman Vondrouš