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Kajínek asks Czech court in Pilsen to reopen double murder case

Kajínek asks court to reopen double murder case, promises new evidence
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Kajínek, who was convicted of a double murder, has filed a motion with the regional court in Pilsen to reopen his trial and wants to present new evidence. The news server iDnes.cz reported this on Tuesday. A public hearing to decide the fate of the motion is scheduled for January next year, court spokesman Jakub Štverák told Novinky. It is not yet known whether the court will grant the request.

With the new evidence, Kajínek is trying to prove his innocence in the double murder case for which he received a life sentence in 1998. Kajínek, 65, already asked for a retrial in 2004, but the court rejected the motion. His later requests in 2011 and 2015 ended the same way.

In prison, Kajínek served his sentence for the murder of Pilsen businessman Štefan Janda and one of his bodyguards. The second bodyguard survived the attack. In 2017, Kajínek was pardoned by Zeman.

Around Prague, based on reporting by novinky.cz

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