Kredyt Bank killers sentenced to life behind bars with six years for fiancee

Grzegorz Szelest, Krzysztof Matusik and Marek Rafalik, found guilty of murdering three cashiers and a security guard at a Kredyt Bank branch in Warsaw on March 3, 2001, were sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday. The judge emphasized the cruelty of the crime and the fact that the murderers hadn't expressed any remorse. Szelest, who shot the cashiers in the head one by one, will be eligible for parole only after 40 years; initiator of the raid Matusik, after 35 years and Rafalik after 25 years. Rafalik's fiancee, Kamila Maniecka, and her father, were also sentenced for hiding the stolen money and covering the robbers' tracks. Maniecka will spend six years in prison, while her father Andrzej was sentenced to two years imprisonment suspended for five. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) M.K.