The Rzesz\u00f3w Regional Court has delivered its verdict in the eight-year trial concerning the 1998 murder of 17-year-old Iwona Cygan in Szczucin, involving 17 defendants, including 14 former police officers. <\/p>\n
The announcement of the verdict took place on Friday before the Regional Court in Rzesz\u00f3w, 28 years after the high-profile murder of 17-year-old Iwona Cygan in 1998 in Szczucin, located in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. The trial lasted eight years, having begun in June 2018, and involved 17 defendants, including 14 retired and former police officers.<\/p>\n
The main defendant is Pawe\u0142 K., whom the prosecutor charged with murder with particular cruelty, while his father, J\u00f3zef K., is charged with co-perpetration. Among the defendants is also the victim’s female friend, Renata G.-D., who was accused of obstructing criminal proceedings and giving false testimony.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor charged 14 retired and former police officers with abuse of power or failure to perform duties in order to achieve a financial benefit, as well as acting as an accessory by obstructing criminal proceedings. None of the accused individuals pleaded guilty to the charges brought against them.<\/p>\n
The article is continuously updated with new developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Rzesz\u00f3w Regional Court has delivered its verdict in the eight-year trial concerning the 1998 murder of 17-year-old Iwona Cygan in Szczucin, involving 17 defendants, including 14 former police officers. Verdict Delivered After Eight-Year Trial The announcement of the verdict took place on Friday before the Regional Court in Rzesz\u00f3w, 28 years after the high-profile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}