Salisbury father accused of killing his wife and daughter in jealous rage
Marcin Zdun is on trial for double murder at Winchester Crown Court
Last updated 3rd Dec 2020
Aneta Zdun, 40 and 18 year old daughter Nikoleta were found with serious injuries at their home in Wessex Road in Salisbury on June 1st this year and pronounced dead at the scene.
The court heard when Marcin Zdun was arrested at the scene police found a folding lock knife in his trouser pocket with blood stains on the blade and handle.
The 40 year old denies the murder charges.
Opening the trial yesterday (2nd December ) prosecutor Nicholas Haggan QC said around a month before the women were killed the defendant tried to strangle his wife.
Mr Haggan said Aneta had told her colleague at Wessex Care, where she worked as a community support worker, that the defendant pushed Nikoleta against kitchen cupboards when she tried to intervene.
She told her friend "she couldn't breathe'' and said "I was so blue''.
Zdun was asked to leave the family home as a result of that incident, Mr Haggan said, and Aneta sought a divorce.
Jurors also heard how Aneta had messaged her mother saying she was worried her husband was going to kill her and her daughter.
Mr Zdun believes his wife was having an affair with a man he worked with at Tesco but the prosecution claim this was a "manifestation of the defendant's jealous suspicions'' as they had never met,
Mr Haggan said.
"Those jealous suspicions, coupled with the breakdown of the marriage, the defendant's eviction from the family home, and the fact that his wife wanted a divorce, we suggest therefore the loss of his controlling influence over Aneta and Nikoleta so angered this defendant that at some point, either before or when he was at Wessex Road that afternoon (on June 1), he decided to kill them.''
The court also heard how Mr Zdun doesn't deny killed the women but has no recollection of what happened that afternoon.
The defence will argue he suffered an an abnormality of mental functioning at the time of the incident which reduced the killings to manslaughter.
The trial continues.