The late Bogdan Michalkiewicz
A jury at a murder trial in the Central Criminal Court has heard that one of the accused got on his knees and swore that he wasn’t involved in the death of a Polish man in Letterkenny when questioned by a friend of the deceased.
Bogdan Michalkiewicz was discovered by his brother Tomasz Michalkiewicz at Westside apartments on 13 May 2013 after he went to check on the deceased when he had not answered his phone for a number of days.
Previous evidence has heard how a television had been dropped on the dead man’s head.
Both Krystof Grzegorski and his co-accused Dariusz Weckowicz have pleaded not guilty to the 41 year old Polish man’s murder.
Grzegorski, 22, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter, however, this charge was not accepted by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Witness Adam Kycwaik told the court he met one of the accused, Dariusz Weckowicz, in the street a few days after his friend Bogdan Michalkiewicz had been found beaten to death at his home in Letterkenny.
Adam invited Mr Weckowicz to his house to find out what had happened. Speaking on Friday to prosecution counsel Alex Owens, SC, he said: “I asked him whether he was there and he said he was there. I asked if someone else was with him and he said ‘yes’.”
He said Mr Weckowicz told him that he was so drunk he couldn’t prevent what had happened to the deceased.
“He was swearing that he did not touch Bogdan. He was swearing on his knees,” he told defence counsel for Mr Weckowicz, Brendan Grehan, SC.
The trial continues.