Lukasz C. (42) from Roosendaal has to go to jail for sixteen years for the death of his girlfriend Mariola (47). The court in Breda ruled on Thursday. The Polish partners lived together in a tiny room and drank a lot and often had a fight. In April last year this combination became fatal to the wife.
The police made a bizarre discovery on April 23, 2024. In that tiny room in a labor migrant house on the Hoogstraat in Roosendaal there was a heavily battled dead woman under a stack of bedding. The Polish woman of 47 turned out to be dead for almost two weeks and that smelled enormously.
The police were called late in the evening by Lukasz C. (42) that someone was dead in his room and that he had stabbed her to death. The dead woman was his girlfriend Mariola. She was stabbed in her back and had broken ribs. The two had just started living together in the room of 2.5 by 3 meters in that room building.
Air fresheners and scented candles
Bizarre detail is that the woman had been killed almost two weeks earlier, on 10 April. And all the while Lukasz C. stayed in the room where the corpse lay. Although the body was covered with bedding, the air was not to harden, despite all the air fresheners and scented candles.
The life of Lukasz C. mainly took place in a large haze of alcohol. When the police picked him up, he had no fewer than six to seven times more alcohol in his blood than is allowed if you want to drive. According to Lukasz he had drunk two bottles of port on that evening. There was also a lot of alcohol in Mariola’s blood.
On April 11, C. already sent a photo of the corpse to a friend. And until he was arrested, he used Mariola’s phone to send and answer messages. For example, acquaintances were told that Mariola was rushed back to Poland and that she had left Lukasz and was back with her husband. By acting like this, the suspect not only deprived her the right to life, but he also took her dignity and stripped her of all her humanity, the court writes in the verdict.
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With sixteen years in prison, the judges laid up two years more than was demanded by the judiciary. According to the court, this is because in 2023 the penalty for manslaughter went up. In addition, the court finds more punishment justified because of the horrific facts and circumstances of this case.
Sad final piece
During the hearing, the public prosecutor came to the conclusion that the death of Mariola was a sad final piece of a relationship full of domestic violence and alcohol abuse. The couple had a lot of fighting and from bone fractures from different periods it can be concluded that Mariola has been mistreated for some time. And this case does not stand in itself, the officer noted. Because domestic violence and femicide, in which a woman is killed by her partner, are far too much in the Netherlands, he saw.
“This case shows why signaling, preventing and tackling domestic violence is so incredibly important,” said the public prosecutor. “In a large number of cases of murder and manslaughter there are domestic violence. In more than three of the four cases in which a woman is killed by violence, the perpetrator is a family member or the partner or ex-partner. In most cases the perpetrator is a man,” said the officer.
