The court turned down the couple's appellate review, in which they questioned the submitted evidence and demanded new proceedings, as unsubstantiated in July. Knoetig said the lower-level courts had collected sufficient pieces of evidence to Kafka: The Writer Who Didn't Want to Be Read ...
Turkey's AKP threatens to clip power of courts ... issue the verdict and they had justified it properly. The couple have a chance to turn to the Constitutional Court, which, however, only rarely meets complaints in penal cases. According to the charges, the married couple murdered Natoli, 64, in his flat in Prague in January 2006.
They allegedly attacked the man with a wooden rod and five kitchen knives, stabbing him 13 times, and then stole golden jewels and 20,000 crowns from his flat. Natoli lived in the Czech Republic for seven years. He easily established contact with middle-aged women for whom he bought small gifts and treated them in a gentleman-like way in cafes. He allegedly promised Monika Chovancova to help her find a job at the Italian embassy in Prague. After Natoli's murder, the married couple disappeared from Prague and earned their living, for instance, working with a circus. They were detained in Havlickuv Brod, east Bohemia, in June 2006 by a regular police patrol. The couple dismissed guilt for the profit-motivated murder, but the wife claimed at the same time that her husband confessed to her he had murdered Natoli. (USD1=16.066 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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