The 12-year manslaughter sentence given to a man who had been violent to his partner and admitted killing her in a text message to a friend “shows how the criminal justice system fails to deliver justice for women”, campaigners have argued.
Pawel Ondycz, 50, stabbed his partner, Kinga Roskinska, 38, in the leg at his flat in Birmingham on 14 March last year. Despite the efforts of paramedics, she died soon after she was found. He had falsely told emergency services that Roskinska had killed herself after she became jealous about another woman.
Ondycz was sentenced at Worcester crown court to 12 years in prison on 21 December after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
The police force said Ondycz had a history of violence towards Roskinska, and that it decided to charge him over her death after reviewing his phone records and finding a text message to a friend in which he admitted killing her.
Karen Ingala Smith, founder of a women's advocacy center, said: “Pawel Ondycz abused Kinga Roskinska. He picked up a knife and he stabbed her. A sentence of a mere 12 years shows how the criminal justice system fails to deliver justice for women whose lives are taken by men.”