Polish man who killed his friend on St Stephen's Day jailed for six years
A Polish national who killed his friend, whose brain twisted in his skull after he received 27 injuries to his head and neck on St Stephen's Day three years ago, has been jailed for six years.
The Central Criminal Court was previously told at a sentencing hearing for Tomasz Rozpeda that no one knows "exactly what happened" on the night Maciej Nowak (32) was killed and that both men had consumed "substances to excess".
Rozpeda told an emergency operator that his friend had "gone crazy, hitting things and hitting himself" but a pathologist later found Nowak had died from blunt force trauma, not in keeping with self-inflicted injuries.
Sentencing 29-year-old Rozpeda at the Central Criminal Court on Monday, Judge Eileen Creedon said the fact that Nowak's brain twisted within his skull suggested that his head had been struck multiple times with an object or flat surface.
She said a pathologist found that the pattern of injury to the head was consistent with blunt force injuries...
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