Daniel Pelka Jury Told To Avoid Emotion

By Lisa Dowd, Midlands Correspondent

A judge has told a jury they must decide whether a mother and stepfather are "jointly and criminally responsible" for the death of four-year-old Daniel Pelka.

Mrs Justice Cox reminded jurors at Birmingham Crown Court that Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek are accused of "strangling him, beating him, forcing him to consume salt, holding him under water and confining him in a box room".

In the eighth week of the trial, she said there was "no dispute" that Daniel "died as a result of a significant traumatic injury to his head ... resulting in brain damage which rendered him unconscious and killed him".

But the judge said jurors must decide whether the couple were both "jointly and criminally responsible for his death".

Summing up the case, she told the jury that both defendants deny responsibility for the fatal blow and taking part in a "campaign of cruelty" against Daniel, and that "each points the finger of blame at each other".

Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek deny murder

She said Krezolek claimed Luczak was the "violent, controlling and aggressive" one because she could not cope with her son's behaviour.

He claims he "reluctantly" punished the boy because Luczak said it was the job of "the man of the house", the judge said.

She said Luczak argued it was Krezolek who "slapped Daniel twice on Daniel's head" before he died.

She admits she was present, but denies being "jointly responsible", the judge said.

Mrs Justice Cox told the jury that Luczak, in her evidence, claimed she had intervened to stop the assault but was "subjected to violence" by Krezolek.

The judge told jurors to consider the case "calmly and objectively" and "not let emotion or sympathy for Daniel cloud your approach to the evidence in this case".

She said the prosecution must make the jury "sure of guilt" and if they were not sure "the verdict must be not guilty".

Luczak and Krezolek admit cruelty but deny Daniel's murder and causing or allowing his death in Coventry in March last year.

The judge is due to continue summing up the case next week.

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