The High Court has upheld the sentence handed down to a man named Novák, who over several months brutally tortured and raped a female acquaintance at a house in the village of Siřem near Žatec. The man was sentenced to 15 years in prison, w
In the Czech city of Jihlava, a homeless woman named Gabinka, originally from the Plzeň Region, has repeatedly caused disturbances at the local hospital and on public transport — despite a court order banning her from the district. This was
The Regional Court in České Budějovice has sentenced 73-year-old former insolvency administrator Václav Svoboda to five years in prison for embezzling nearly 67 million crowns from creditors. For thirteen years, the man — repeatedly appoint
The Czech Military Police have asked prosecutors to press charges against seven people in a large-scale case involving manipulation of public tenders announced by the Defence Ministry's Real Estate Management Agency (AHNM). Two other member
In several Moravian towns — Olomouc, Prostějov, Brno, Zlín, Přerov and Otrokovice — street vending machines branded Still Chill were selling synthetic marijuana containing the banned substance MDMB-PINACA, a drug whose danger has been compa
On Thursday, July 9, at around five in the afternoon, an unknown car struck an 85-year-old woman as she was crossing the road toward the pavement on the opposite side in Prague 4, on V Štíhlách Street. This was reported by police spokeswoma
The Regional Court in Brno has rejected a plea agreement between the prosecution and a man accused of sexually assaulting his underage stepdaughter. According to the investigation, the attacks took place in February this year, and the agree
Four years ago, on a battered road near Adamov in the Blansko district, driver Jiří Luňáček swerved to avoid an oncoming car and hit a pothole nearly 20 centimetres deep. Trying to steer back into his lane, he crossed into the opposite lane
The tragedy took place late last month in House Springs, Missouri. According to People magazine, an elderly man named Robert Winkelman approached his neighbor Jessica Lashley to complain about noise coming from her home at around 8:30 in th
The District Court in České Budějovice has received an indictment against a South Bohemian state prosecutor suspected of abusing his own children. According to court spokeswoman Petra Holíková, the case was forwarded by the Klatovy district
On Thursday, August 6, at around 2:00 pm, a local resident contacted the municipal police in Jablonec nad Nisou: an unfamiliar boy had asked to use her bathroom in her flat on Jizerská Street, and after he left, the woman discovered that he
A head-on collision between two cars on the road leading from Pohořelice to Znojmo has left two people dead and four others seriously injured. Rescuers classified the incident as a first-degree emergency."One person had already died before