Bureaucracy and delays allowed convicted rapist to roam and kill

If the police and court put more effort into catching Pawel H., then probably 22-year old Katarzyna P. who was raped and murdered in the Tatra mountains at the end of July, could have avoided her fate. It turned out that on July 11 the Białystok police received information about another rape victim of Paweł H. However, it was only ready to send out a wanted poster on August 5, but this was further delayed by the local court, which declared it would analyze the motion by September 12. "This was an evident mistake. We will work out whose fault it was and we will punish that person," said deputy chairman of the Białystok local court Marzanna Chojnowska. However, the head of the court, Jarosław Kamiński, said that the court might have decided that the suspect should have been informed about the investigation, which takes time, or that he was in hiding. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A6) M.M.