High Court upholds Ďuričko verdict

The High Court has upheld a 12.5 year jail sentence in the case of Bohumir Ďuričko whom the Prague City Court found guilty of having murdered entrepreneur Václav Kočka Jr. Ďuričko shot Kočka dead in a quarrel at a late nigh party in a Prague restaurant, but maintains that he was physically attacked by him and was acting in self-defence. The High Court’s verdict cannot be appealed. The case has elicited considerable media attention because the victim’s father is a close friend of Social Democrat leader Jiří Paroubek