“The police investigation, as well as the subsequent attitude of the public prosecutor, has been conducted completely purposefully and personally from the beginning, with the aim of eliminating my person and my office,” claims Jelínek. Jelínek did not get to testify before the court until Friday, the fourth day of the trial.
The defendant Roman Lorenc exercised his right and made a declaration of guilt. Another defendant, Vlastimil Grégr, did not testify, and the third defendant, Luboš Bičan, spoke for practically two days.
Jelínek had already announced in advance that his statement would last four to five hours. “It is not true that those reasons, i.e. the escalating legal disputes over the minor grandson or the verbally announced criminal proceedings in the case of the allegedly falsified determination of paternity, are here. Even the victim himself never signaled to me that he wanted to file a criminal complaint,” claimed Jelínek, for example.
They twisted my words
“Provably, there was no motive of mine. It was artificially created by the police and unfortunately taken over by the prosecutor. It is not true that I would order the attack, kidnapping, or even the killing of the victim. I never did it, I had no reason to do it and it never even occurred to me,” repeated the accused lawyer. He stated that he only learned about the search for the victim in January 2023.
“And that someone is being prosecuted in this matter, I only learned that in December 2023,” continued Pavel Jelínek. In the next part, however, he admitted that the aggrieved party was thinking about some trials due to a paternity test.
“When the injured party told me that he wanted to file a lawsuit against the company performing the paternity test, I told him to consider it because the company was not going to like it. For example, a lawsuit for damage to the name. This innocent conversation was distorted either by the victim himself, or by his acquaintances or the police,” explained Jelínek in court.
According to him, the argument that the reason for preparing the victim’s death is due to disputes over the grandson does not hold up either. Jelínek pointed out that the guardianship court entrusted the child to the mother’s care. His daughter even allowed his ex-partner to see the boy.
As in the Uncombed case
According to Jelínek, all the accusations are complete nonsense. On the contrary, he himself accused the police and the public prosecutor of influencing witnesses and asked the court to prohibit them from doing so.
“There is a threat of influencing witnesses by this murder party, as we saw in the live broadcast in the Nečaný case. I thought this whole bunch should go. They are in the same composition in both cases. Both police officers and prosecutors. They chose the culprit and are going after him,” the defendant Jelínek claims.
He should have disappeared in the water tank
Three of the defendants attacked the victim on the morning of December 15, 2022 in Hradec Králové. The assault was supposed to give the impression of a police intervention. They pacified the businessman, handcuffed him, forcibly loaded him into a car and took him to Pardubice. There, the defendant Grégr was supposed to inject an unknown substance into his neck with a syringe, which put the victim to sleep, rendered him unconscious or killed him. In this part, the indictment relies mainly on the testimony of Lorenz, who confessed to the crime. After that, the victim should have been transferred to another vehicle and taken away. On the same day or the following day, they were to dispose of the body by throwing it into one of the water bodies in Vysočina or southern Moravia. The body has not been found to this day.
The main make-up is also scheduled for next week, but it will most likely continue in January.
An elite Pardubice lawyer is on trial for plotting a murder. The victim’s body was not found
Pardubice region
