Word: chmielewski
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...remorse but relief, for he could have fared much worse: the state prosecutor had requested the death penalty. Also sentenced to long terms for aiding Piotrowski in the abduction and killing of Popieluszko last October were two subordinates in the security forces, Leszek Pekala and Waldemar Chmielewski. Pekala, who drove the kidnap car, received 15 years, and Chmielewski, whose stuttering, tear-filled testimony gave the trial some of its most dramatic moments, got 14 years. Adam Pietruszka, the former colonel who flatly denied Piotrowski's accusations that he had encouraged the killing, received a 25-year jail term...
...prosecutor recommended that each of Piotrowski's partners, Co-Defendants Waldemar Chmielewski and Leszek Pekala, receive a sentence of 25 years, the maximum term under Polish law. The men, he said, were following the orders of their superior. The prosecutor also recommended a sentence of 25 years for the fourth defendant, ex-Colonel Adam Pietruszka, who took no physical part in the crime but is accused of having encouraged Piotrowski in its commission. The prosecutor's recommendations are expected to be approved by Presiding Judge Artur Kujawa and his four co-jurists this week...
...part in the kidnaping and killing, Piotrowski has based his hope to escape the death sentence on the earlier autopsy conclusion that the priest had strangled on his bonds. Popieluszko was trussed by Piotrowski's assistants, co-defendants and former secret police officers Leszek Pekala and Waldemar Chmielewski. By suggesting that the savage beating contributed to Popieluszko's death, Byrdy may have destroyed Piotrowski's only defense...
...completed, the court was subjected to an even more wrenching session. For 40 minutes, judges, lawyers and spectators watched a black-and-white videotape showing Popieluszko's body moments after it was pulled from the reservoir. The effect of the videotape upon the defendants was clear: Pekala cried openly; Chmielewski bowed his head; and, for his part, Piotrowski appeared to be taking deep breaths. Only the fourth defendant, former Secret Police Colonel Adam Pietruszka, remained impassive...
...time he had mistakenly believed the orders to abduct Popieluszko came from "the top," he allowed the stain of complicity to go no further than his immediate superior, Adam Pietruszka, a former colonel and the fourth man in the dock. Like two of his co-defendants, former Lieutenants Waldemar Chmielewski and Leszek Pekala, who testified two weeks ago, Piotrowski said he assumed that the idea to abduct the priest was sponsored by people senior enough to shield him from prosecution. "All the time, I was certain that this cannot be Adam Pietruszka's idea. But it turned out different...