The Bolesławiec District Prosecutor’s Office has filed an indictment with the Regional Court in Jelenia Góra against a 26-year-old resident of Chojnów. The charge: attempting to murder her father-in-law. – The investigation established that on July 20, 2024, the defendant, driving her Mazda passenger car along a road through one of the localities near Bolesławiec, encountered her father-in-law, who was riding a bicycle in the opposite direction – says prosecutor Ewa Węglarowicz-Makowska, press spokeswoman for the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Jelenia Góra. – The defendant passed him, then turned the car around, drove after the victim and, upon drawing level with the cyclist, turned the steering wheel to the right, deliberately hitting the bicycle and knocking down the victim, causing him to fall onto the ground.
She adds: – She then immediately drove away from the scene without stopping. As a result of the collision, the man suffered bodily injuries including contusions to the back of the head, a comminuted fracture of the sternum’s manubrium with retrosternal bleeding, and a number of other injuries that impaired the functioning of his bodily organs for more than seven days.
She also adds:
The defendant was also charged with violating the bodily integrity of her mother-in-law and brother-in-law by spraying pepper spray into their faces. This incident took place on July 20, 2024, at the defendant’s in-laws’ place of residence.
The suspect pleaded not guilty to the charges against her. She explained that she had not intended to kill her father-in-law. She maintained that when she was driving the car at the time, she only wanted to stop beside him and talk to him, but she was distraught. She failed to brake. That was why she hit him.
At the request of the Bolesławiec District Prosecutor, the court remanded the 26-year-old woman in pre-trial detention. Investigators:
The psychiatric experts who examined the defendant ruled that she was neither mentally ill nor intellectually disabled. They nevertheless found that the defendant’s behavior had been impulsive and related to emotions she was experiencing, such as anger, a sense of regret and grievance. They therefore concluded that, due to a physiological state of intense emotion, the defendant’s ability to recognize the significance of the acts of which she was accused and to control her conduct had been substantially limited.
In view of the opinion’s findings, the prosecutor determined that the acts of which the defendant was accused had been committed under the circumstances described in Article 31 § 2 of the Criminal Code. This provision allows the Court to impose an extraordinary mitigation of the defendant’s sentence.
The woman had no previous criminal convictions.