Revealed, violent past of the immigrant thug who killed elderly woman
A MIGRANT thug convicted of an attack on an elderly woman in his native Poland now faces life behind bars for stabbing to death an 85-year-old victim in Scotland.
Robert Buczek will be deported after he serves time for the “brutal and sustained attack” on Eleanor Whitelaw.
A jury at the High Court in Glasgow took 10 minutes to convict him of murdering the dementia sufferer, who was stabbed seven times in the neck after answering her door.
Judge Lord Matthews told Buczek: “You have been found guilty – frankly unsurprising given the evidence – of the brutal murder of a vulnerable, elderly women in her own home. This was a revolting crime.”
This was a revolting crime
The 24-year-old, who denied the murder, had told the jury that he did not have any previous convictions but he was on bail at the time of the killing over being caught carrying a knife in Edinburgh.
A gambling addict, Buczek arrived in the Capital looking for work a few months before the fatal attack last July.
He had failed to declare that he had been convicted in Poland for assaulting an elderly woman. He was 14 at the time and his victim was 82.
Mrs Whitelaw, who was found by her husband Robert suffered horrific neck injuries, inflicted with a pair of scissors, and died in hospital 17 days later.
Her 88-year-old husband Stan had popped out to shop on the morning she was attacked.
Police said Buczek had been watching the couple’s Victorian house in Edinburgh’s upmarket Morningside district. He was working as a labourer just yards from the house and observed the couple over several weeks.
He knocked on the front door and attacked Mrs Whitelaw with the scissors while her Stan was making his way back home.
Buczek callously dragged her along the hallway, leaving a trail of blood and then ransacked the house.
He left behind vital clues, including a partial footprint in Mrs Whitelaw’s blood in a bathroom, before fleeing with a collection of Irish stamps and a box of spoons.
He left the grandmother, also known as Norah, covered in blood and fighting for her life.
The trial heard that Buczek took the stamps to a dealer in Edinburgh, giving the name Robert Meoczak and revealing his mobile phone number.
