Man pleads guilty to manslaughter of wife in Sligo



The trial of a man accused of murdering his wife has heard he admitted strangling her to death in their home, but claimed he didn’t mean to kill her.

Rafal Karaczyn of Crozon Park, Sligo has pleaded guilty to her manslaughter, but denies murdering her between April 29th and May 1st 2018.

Mr Karaczyn was interviewed eight times following his arrest in April 2018.

In his first seven interviews, he repeatedly denied killing his wife Natalia. He told them they were on a break and sleeping in separate rooms, but he still loved her.

He told Gardaí he found her body on her bed one morning, and decided to remove it from the house because he feared he’d be blamed for killing her.

The jury heard he admitted causing her death in his final interview. He said everything started a year before, when she told him she wanted to break-up.

He said he became depressed.

She’d been out on the night in question, and he said he asked her where she had been when she returned to the house.

He claimed she pushed him and slapped him twice, and that’s when he used both his hands to strangle her.

Afterwards, he said he put her body into the boot of his car, and dumped her in a forested area under some branches.

During his final interview, the jury heard he repeatedly told Gardaí he loved her and didn’t mean to kill her.



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