Krzysztof Garstki’s older sister and her two young children, Kinga (6) and 18-month-old Kacper, were killed, as was his 55-year-old father, Marek Garstki, when a man armed with a knife went on a killing spree at their St Helier flat. That man is alleged to be Mrs Rzeszowska’s 30-year-old husband and father of her children Damian, who is now in police custody in hospital after reportedly stabbing himself following the incident on Sunday.
Speaking from the family home in Bydgoszcz, Poland, Mr Garstki (26) told the JEP that his sister and her husband had recently visited and had seemed in good spirits.
‘Our family is totally in shock,’ he said, adding that he would be travelling to Jersey today. ‘We still do not believe what has happened. My mother is in a really poor condition and is seeing a psychiatrist. The situation is beyond her. My sister did not say there was anything wrong when they visited us in Poland in the last few days. They did not even show that there was something wrong between them.’
Adding that the couple had met eight years ago in Mrs Rzeszowska’s home town and were planning to return to Poland in the future, he said: ‘They were saving money to build a house. They did not know where yet, but I don’t think it would have been in either of their home towns.
Full story in Wednesday’s JEP
