Prosecutors say Mieszko R. was legally insane during University of Warsaw murder, according to 200-page psychiatric evaluation.
Psychiatric Opinion on Mieszko R.
The expert psychiatric opinion in the University of Warsaw murder case is approximately 200 pages long and reached investigators in January. Now the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office has told the portal Gazeta.pl that in their opinion, Mieszko R. was not legally responsible at the time of the incident.
“The experts determined that at the time of committing the act, he was in a state of psychosis caused by psychotic decompensation in the course of a diagnosed mental disorder,” said prosecutor Alicja Szelągowska from the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office in an interview with Gazeta.pl.
Will Mieszko R. Stand Before Court?
Due to the determined lack of legal responsibility, a request will be submitted to the court to dismiss the proceedings and commit the man to a closed psychiatric institution.
However, according to the experts, there is a high probability that Mieszko R. could commit a similar act in the future. Therefore, they proposed that if he were ever released from the psychiatric institution, the court should consider placing him in the National Center for Preventing Dissocial Behavior in Gostynin.
Currently, there is a wait for any possible requests from the parties to the proceedings (including the victim’s family), which could theoretically demand, for example, supplementation of the opinion or ordering another one.
Court-Psychiatric Observation
As we wrote in Gazeta.pl, the court-psychiatric observation of the suspect began on September 1 of last year. Mieszko R. was then admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Jarosław, where he was supposed to spend four weeks.
However, his stay there was extended by another four. Subsequently, the 22-year-old was transported to the Detention Center in Radom.
Charges After the University of Warsaw Murder
Mieszko R. is suspected of murdering a University of Warsaw employee and desecrating her body, which occurred on May 7 on the UW campus, as well as attempting to murder a University Security employee.
When the 22-year-old was arrested, he also bit a police officer in the leg while being put in a safety restraint suit. In connection with this, he was charged with assaulting an officer.
“This act is punishable by a fine, restriction of liberty, or imprisonment of up to three years. The suspect did not admit to committing this act,” informed the spokesman for the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office, prosecutor Piotr Antoni Skiba.