In Poland, the sentence of a Ukrainian who strangled his mistress during sex was commuted

The court of the Polish city of Szczecin has commuted the sentence of a citizen of Ukraine who strangled his mistress during sex. The judge ruled that it was an "accident."

The incident occurred in June 2022 on the Baltic Sea coast in Mendzyzdroj. Mikhailo M., a 21-year-old Ukrainian migrant at that time, met a 35-year-old Polish woman named Anna in a nightclub. As a result, the girl brought a new beau to her hotel, where the police found a corpse in the bathroom in the morning. Also, her phone, money and documents were missing from the room, and Mrs. Anna's car was missing from the parking lot.

Mikhailo confessed, explaining that during intimacy, with Anna's consent, he realized the "fantasy of strangulation."

"I put my left hand on her neck and rested my elbow on the wall. She was pressed against the wall. It didn't last long. Then she began to fall," the defendant testified in court.

He claimed that he was trying to resuscitate a woman (this was confirmed by the marks on her body). But when that didn't work, he dragged Anna into the bathroom to pretend that she had died of natural causes.

Judge Bohumila Stanek ruled that the accused acted with the ultimate intention and sentenced him to 13.5 years in prison. However, the other day the Court of Appeal in Szczecin changed the legal qualification of the act to manslaughter, significantly reducing Mikhailo's sentence to 4.5 years in prison. Since the Ukrainian has already spent three years in prison, he can now apply for parole from serving his sentence.