Bus driver who beat British student, 21, to death in Poland begs for leniency
A bus driver who bludgeoned a young British student to death in Poland last year has begged for leniency because he 'had a wife and family to care for'.
The battered body of Kate Zaks, 21, an art student at the University of Kent, was found lying in a mud-filled ditch close to a railway track in a remote suburb of Krakow last July.
A post mortem revealed she had drowned after being struck over the head several times with a hard object.
Police launched a manhunt and within days had tracked down bus driver Mirolsaw Lukaszewski, 45, to the small town of Skarzysko-Kamienna, 93 miles from the city.
He confessed to the killing immediately on his arrest.
Yesterday afternoon Lukaszewski appeared in court and told how he had beaten Miss Zaks with a metal brake pipe he kept below his seat after he had tried to wake her and an argument had broken out.
