Prosecutor in notorious show-trial asks for jail sentence to be postponed

Communist prosecutor Ludmila Brozova-Polednova, who was sentenced this year to six years in jail for her role in a notorious Stalinist show trial, has asked for her sentence to be postponed. Ms Brozova-Polednova was to start serving her sentence in a Plzen jail by the end of October. But on Monday, a Prague court spokesperson said that the 86-year-old had put in a request to have her prison sentence put off for six months. Ms Brožová-Polednová was sentenced to six years in prison this September for being an accomplice to the murder of Milada Horáková. Ms Horáková was a democratic politician charged with treason by the communists and executed. The last surviving prosecutor in the case, Ms Brožová-Polednová was found guilty of judicial murder by a judge who said it was unlikely she would spend a day of her sentence in prison. But a further court insisted on her prison sentence and head of state Vaclav Klaus refused her presidential pardon.