A Central Criminal Court jury discovered a guy guilty of the murder of his former roommate, whom he stabbed to death before throwing his body in front of an alley in northern Dublin.
The seven-man-five-woman panel rejected Sebastian Barczuk’s defense that the state had presented “less than part of a story” and may only tell when, where, why or how his homeless friend was killed.
According to the defence, the prosecution was unable to imply a motive between the accused and the deceased, whom they described as one of the biggest mysteries of the case, since both were “like brothers” with each other.
Instead, the jury accepted the state’s claim that the defendant was a “proven and identified liar” who was “flying” when he first questioned detectives before placing a suspect on the case.
In his confiding comments, prosecutor Lorcan Staines SC and Carl Hanahoe BL suggested jurors be very careful before accepting the defendant’s account and “selfish claims,” which he said were used to “throw him away from the smell. “
Barczuk, 32, with a confrontation in Briarwood Lawn, Mulhuddart, Dublin 15 had pleaded guilty to the murder of his 33-year-old homeless friend Michal Kurek, in an unknown location in the state between 3 and 4 August 2017.
Kurek, a homeless man with substance abuse problems, discovered face-down mendacity on the front of a rural road in Ballyboughal with 62 stab wounds to his body, adding 25 stab wounds to his back on the morning of August 4.
A Nokia 105 cell phone in the right pocket of the deceased’s jeans and the headset still on.
He showed that a cyclist discovered the painting of deceased mendacity next to a walkway in ballyboughal’s Grange domain on the morning of August 4.
Former assistant state pathologist Dr. Michael Curtis said the Polish citizen died of “multiple stab wounds and a contribution of blunt head and chest trauma. “
The trial found that the smallest amount of DNA in a combined profile taken from Kurek’s Nokia phone matched the defendant’s DNA.
In addition, the defendant’s phone established a knowledge connection on a mobile site near Ballyboughal in northern Dublin at 0053 and 0055 the morning Kurek’s frame was discovered, while the deceased’s phone also used a mobile site in Ballyboughal at 00:47 and 00:52 the same morning . . .
The jury had seen a CCTV image montage of a Blue Spot Fiat traveling from Clonsilla Inn at 9. 18pm. on 3 August, Lispopple Cross in County Dublin at 00:19 and passing through Drishogue in Oldtown, Co Dublin at 00:56 a. m. August 4th . . .
Ewa Raczka said that on August 2, 2017, two days before Kurek’s painting was found out, he had sold a Fiat Punto to Barczuk.
According to the prosecution, when a user married CCTV photographs of Fiat Punto in north of Co Dublin at night with the mobile site investigation, the jury had the right to infer that the defendant had murdered his friend.
The state suggests that Staines asked the jury that “when the coincidence is placed above the coincidence, it becomes an affront to his common sense. “
The 12 jurors discovered Barczuk as guilty of murder through an 11-1 majority verdict. They had deliberated for almost thirteen hours for four days.
Following today’s verdict, Judge Tony Hunt thanked the jury for his service and was paid for the case.
“These are very complicated cases and they are for reasons we all know,” he said.
The opinion found their service to be exemplary and noted the length of their deliberations and the questions they had asked.
He exempted them from jury service for 15 years and said he hoped they would be better informed about the operation of the legal system.
Barczuk did not react when the verdict was delivered.
Judge Hunt will impose the mandatory life sentence on 2 November and put Barczuk on re-trial detention until that date.
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