The drill as a murder tool. The brutal death of an elderly woman will probably result in a life sentence

According to the file, the defendants murdered the elderly woman for property. Long-term strained relations culminated in an argument in the family home in Libišany, forty-six-year-old Kučera intervened in the conflict between forty-three-year-old Baráková and her mother.

He took a heavy vase and started hitting the victim on the head while sitting on her back on the ground. The attack then culminated in Kučera taking a drill and using two drills with a diameter of six and eight millimeters to drill five holes in the right ear and the right side of the neck of the helpless elderly woman.

The victim had no chance of surviving this attack. The two defendants then covered the tracks together and poured acid over the victim’s body. They later called the police and claimed to have found the dead woman in the house.

State attorney Lenka Faltusová proposed a life sentence for Kučer, also due to the fact that he had been convicted several times in the past and had never learned from his punishment. “His level of harm to society is high. The conditions for life imprisonment are met,” she said, adding that resocialization is possible for Baráková.

“She is also facing an exceptional sentence, but the conditions for it are not met. Not only because she led a decent life before committing the crime. She confessed and helped the police clarify the case,” noted Faltusová.

According to her, the defendants had no respect for human life. “They selfishly wanted to satisfy only their needs, and the injured party experienced extreme physical and mental suffering. As part of covering up their tracks, they acted rationally and appropriated the damaged personal belongings,” the public prosecutor recalled.