The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Double murder accused claims self-defence
COURT: Krzysztof Gadecki will be tried for murder at the High Court in Edinburgh
A man denied murdering two people at a flat in Dundee, claiming he was acting in self-defence.
Krzysztof Gadecki, 38, is accused of stabbing Ronald Kidd and Holly Alexander in the city’s Rosefield Street between December 8 and 11 last year.
He denies assaulting and murdering 40-year-old Mr Kidd and 37-year-old Ms Alexander by repeatedly striking them on the head and body with a knife or similar instrument.
Gadecki, a prisoner at HMP Grampian, lodged a special defence of self defence at a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow.
He also denies that between the same dates at the same location he stole a set of keys, three watches, a pocket watch, a silver chain, a flask, two wallets and their contents, a sum of money and a quantity of heroin and diazepam.
He denies a fourth charge that between December 8 to 11 last year, he attempted to defeat the ends of justice at an address in Benvie Road and elsewhere by washing clothing and disposing of a pair of trainers and a mobile phone, depriving the authorities of the opportunity to submit them for forensic analysis.
Further charges of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner, threatening other people, demanding money and robbing a man, all at the same address and between the same dates as the alleged murders, were withdrawn, as was a charge of possessing diazepam, heroin and cannabis at the same address in Rosefield Street, between January 1 and December 11 last year.
A charge of being concerned in the supply of both amphetamine and cannabis between January 1 and December 11 last year, at different addresses in Dundee, was also withdrawn.
Judge Lady Scott set a trial date of September 19 at the High Court in Edinburgh. Gadecki was remanded in custody.