He got two years for the theft. Now a drug addict from Pilsen is facing accusations that he dismembered a homeless man

According to the police, he should have cut off the head of a young man from Slovakia, cut open his stomach and thrown his mutilated corpse into the Berounka river. During the court hearing, Huleš confessed to minor offenses from 2022 and 2023. According to the file, he stole cables with non-ferrous metals from railway cars, diesel from a truck and drove a car while he was banned. “But I didn’t commit the murder,” the man nicknamed Gumák resolutely declared, despite the fact that the judge pointed out to him that this case was not the subject of the indictment and he did not have to comment on it.

The public prosecutor described Huleš as a recidivist who does not work anywhere and was released from his last sentence in 2022. “I went to temporary jobs, but they didn’t pay me. I was just hungry. I haven’t eaten for like two days. I didn’t want to rummage around in the trash. I’m ashamed of it and I’m sorry,” Huleš explained to the court why he stole.

He added that rather than apply for social benefits and be a usurper of the state, he preferred to become a thief. “I didn’t steal anyone’s things to deprive them of their property. I go for old cables. They were discarded wagons and machines that would have ended up in the scrap anyway,” the accused man continued.

A headless corpse was fished out of the river in Pilsen

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At the same time, he made no secret of the fact that he was a regular drug user. “I take meth once every three days,” he admitted to the court, just as he filed for foreclosures for hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

In the past, Huleš also ended up in court for assaulting his partner. According to the verdict available to Novinky, the man attacked his girlfriend at the time and broke her shoulder blade. He then forced the woman to lie covered in bed and threatened to gouge out her eyes if she got out.

By decision of the Pilsen District Court from May 2020, Huleš received an additional year in prison for bodily harm and extortion in addition to the 16-month sentence for repeated theft of non-ferrous metals.

At that time, an expert psychiatrist declared that he did not belong to the category of persons dangerous to society. “He is not an aggressive and aggressive person. That aggression is isolated to this relationship with the victim, where it slips into intense jealousy, especially when provoked by the partner. The defendant does not belong to the category of persons dangerous to society,” said the expert during the main hearing. The psychiatric report also showed that Huleš is an emotionally unstable person and addicted to drugs.

“Pervitine intoxication increases his impulsivity and causes more massive paranoia, so he perceives even a neutral stimulus in a relational way and has the feeling that he is aggressive towards it,” added the expert.

There was no improvement

Huleš returned to freedom in February 2022. However, there was no improvement in his condition. On the contrary, before the latest charge of murder, the police arrested him twice more behind the wheel of a car where he had nothing to do. And he is also responsible for the aforementioned thefts at the České drah complex in Pilsen, for which he has now ended up in court.

It is not clear how the detectives connected him with the corpse from Berounka. The police embargoed the case. She just curtly stated that she had a suspect in last year’s murder. “The dead man was wearing my clothes. I didn’t do it,” Huleš told a Novinek reporter as he left the courtroom. His statement showed that he had a crush on the homeless man. “Those zm*ds set my car on fire,” he said without elaborating.

The murdered man was a Slovak homeless man who lived on the street in Pilsen for about three years and had the nickname Čobol. The way the killer handled the body shocked even experienced crime experts. In addition to the head, he cut off the genitalia and cut out most of the internal organs. The dead man was also missing part of his buttocks.

The mutilated body was discovered by random passers-by last January under a footbridge in the Pecihrádek locality. It was in the water for about a month. After the autopsy, the medical examiners clearly stated that it was a violent death. The police did not find the missing body parts in the river. Later, the detectives identified the victim as a 33-year-old Slovak who lived for a long time among Pilsen’s homeless.