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A supermarket worker killed his wife and teenage daughter in a fit of jealousy after “losing his controlling influence” over their lives, a jury was told.
Marcin Zdun attacked Aneta Zdun, a 40-year-old caregiver who worked with vulnerable people, and her 18-year-old daughter Nikoleta Zdun, after his wife ordered him to leave home and told him she wanted a divorce, he heard the court.
The women were found seriously injured at their Salisbury home on June 1. When Zdun, a Polish citizen, was arrested at the scene of the killings, police found a folding knife in his trouser pocket with blood stains on the blade and handle, it is alleged.
Zdun, 40, admits to killing the women but denies the killing, claiming that he does not remember what happened and that he had a “mental abnormality”.
Opening the trial in Winchester Crown Court, Nicholas Haggan QC, the prosecutor, said that about a month before the women were killed, the defendant had tried to strangle his wife. They told the court that Nikoleta wanted to call the police, but her mother convinced her not to dial 999, insisting that she was fine.
But Zdun was subsequently asked to leave the family home and his wife filed for divorce. She told her mother that she was concerned that Zdun might kill her and her daughter.
Zdun told several people that his wife was having an affair with a man he worked with at Tesco, but this was a “manifestation of the defendant’s jealous suspicions” as they had not even met, Haggan said.
The prosecutor told the jury: “We suggest that the loss of his controlling influence over Aneta and Nikoleta so infuriated this defendant that … he decided to kill them.”
Haggan said there was evidence pointing to the defendant having a “controlling nature,” complaining that his wife was spending too much money and giving her daughter everything she wanted.
The prosecutor said that June 1 was a “special date” on the Polish calendar. He said: “It is known as Children’s Day. It is an occasion in which families celebrate and it is traditional for parents to give gifts to their children.
“At some point during the early afternoon of Monday, June 1, 2020, the defendant left his accommodation and walked the 2.6 miles or so to the family home.”
He said the neighbors heard screaming. “Several people went to investigate. As they looked through a chain-link fence into the garden, they were met with a horrible sight. They saw the defendant use a knife to attack Aneta and Nikoleta on a road that runs along the side of the property.
The trial continues.
