Woman who freed husband from prison guards in armed ambush unlikely to get jail term

A woman who took part in an armed ambush on prison officers and freed her husband is unlikely to go to jail. Právo reported that a judge in Plzeň had decided to punish Dagmar Tauchenová in the form of an injunction, which carries a maximum sanction of a one-year suspended sentence. Judge Josef Prach refused to comment on the decision, which has not yet been handed to the state attorney or the accused’s defence lawyer. In November last year Mrs Tauchenová held up prison guards at a hospital in Plzeň, forcing them to release her husband Pavel Tauchen. When police tracked them down a month later Mr Tauchen shot himself dead, while his wife was injured by a police bullet, necessitating a difficult operation.