The key witness described this event as follows: the car seller appeared on the spot with his friend and actually received 400,000 from the buyer. Czech crowns (16 thousand 500 euros, or over PLN 70,000 against today's course) for the car. Then, however, everything broke. Immediately after handing the money, the buyer pulled out a gun, shot the seller, and shot his friend. Then he beat him to death – he hit him with an iron rod with a piece of concrete and a mounting key. He buried his bodies in the ground.
The mentioned witness was Lubomir Wacław, called Biftek, who was at the place of bloody event. As a murderer, he pointed to Robert Tempel, called Psych, who already had several robbery attacks. Tempel, however, the accusation of double murder definitely denied and claimed that in fact Wacław committed them. According to Tempel's version, the motive was misunderstandings in the drug industry, which Wacław allegedly dealt with.
Acquitted for lack of evidence
The District Court in Pilzno acquitted Tempel four times from the allegation of murder, but the Supreme Court in Prague annulled this judgment each time. Ultimately, Tempel was legally sentenced to life imprisonment, but it only happened after the Supreme Court referred the case to the District Court in Prague.
However, he did not give up, although he did not succeed in either the Supreme Court or the constitutional court. Even during the main proceedings, he claimed that Prague courts want to take revenge on him for refusing to submit a hearing testimony in the case of police officers from the former Department for Combating Organized Crime (Camp) who cooperated with a well -known extortion group under the leadership of David Berdych.
Ultimately, the European Court of Human Rights intervened, and then Czech courts opened the case again. Tempel was acquitted due to a lack of evidence and in October 2021 he was released from prison (until August 2016 he also stayed there for robbery). At the time of his dismissal he had almost 20 years in prison.
Initially, he demanded compensation in the amount of almost 90 million Czech crowns (EUR 3 million, or 15 million 340 thousand PLN), but the final amount of compensation is much lower. First, he got 3 million 600 thousand. Crowns (150,000 euros, or 639,000 PLN), and now he will receive another 6 million 230 thousand. (260,000 euros, or 1 million 108 thousand). The second part of the compensation was reduced by 2 million 660 thousand. (over PLN 466 thousand) crowns by the Court of Appeal. Still, it is This is one of the highest amounts of compensation that Czech courts have admitted to anyone in history.
