Expert Report on Father Who Killed Viktorka: Planning, Drugs and Questions Over Criminal Responsibility
Viktor P. brutally murdered his three-year-old daughter last March. Experts designated him as criminally irresponsible, but the report leaves specialists with questions.
Father of Viktorka Before Experts: "I Knew I Would Kill Her, Two Days in Advance"
Novinky.cz has examined the expert report on Viktor P., a thirty-year-old man who, according to police and his own confession, brutally murdered his three-year-old daughter Viktorka at the end of March this year. Psychiatrist Gabriela Leblová and psychologist Jindřiška Záhorská concluded that he was criminally irresponsible at the time of the offence. However, an experienced expert who had access to the report points to facts that cast doubt on this conclusion.
Reassessment from Murder to Drunkenness
On the basis of the experts' conclusions, police reassessed the offence from murder to the criminal offence of drunkenness, which carries a maximum sentence of ten years' imprisonment. The experts also recommended that the man be placed in detention, where he could theoretically remain for life. Viktor P. is now awaiting trial in a remand prison. He has a long history of drug use dating back to primary school and suffers from schizophrenia.
"I Hope It's Recorded on the Phone"
During the expert examination, the man described his state with surprising objectivity. "I have a completely clear conscience. I knew I would kill her, two days beforehand. Two days before that, Viky already hinted it to me. Before I killed her, she started to insure herself against it. She was just preparing me. Total bitch, a manipulator. She had everyone wrapped around her finger," he testified.
When asked what the purpose of the attack was, he answered unambiguously: "To kill her. That was not mischief, that was brutal filth. It cannot be described what that little girl was capable of. And then she was sweet again. The only gift she could give me was forcing me to kill her. I hope it's recorded on the phone, how I murder her."
On the fateful evening, he led the girl into the forest and brutally murdered her. The description of the offence is so violent that Novinky.cz does not present it. "It was not easy, I would never have believed what a small child could endure," the father remarked months after the offence.
Planning, Site Selection, Hidden Weapon
A key question remains the extent of the man's criminal responsibility. The offence took place on 21 March, with a psychiatrist noting at his last psychiatric check-up on 4 March that his condition was stabilised and administering him a regular depot injection of medication.
Nevertheless, the man had previously hidden a weapon, prepared biscuits and a drink bottle for his daughter in a rucksack and searched for a place where no one would see them. He then adapted the attack itself to obstacles he had not expected.
"These are manifestations of planning, selection of means, monitoring of the situation, adaptive regulation of behaviour and subsequent conduct oriented towards consequences. These are such strong and contradictory findings that without their independent analysis, one cannot conclude that the capacity to recognise and control one's actions were not merely reduced, but completely absent. It is precisely this collision that the report does not in fact address at all," pointed out an experienced expert who is known to Novinky.cz and who had access to the report.
Missing Persons Report Filed After Three Days
It was only on 24 March that relatives reported that the girl could not be found. The police officers called to the scene refused to say where his daughter was, telling them she was with clever people and well cared for. It was only after some time that he led them to the location of the murder.
Shortly after being taken into custody, on 4 May, he was admitted to prison psychiatry. The doctors there recorded that the patient did not appear psychotic to them. "When confronted with the fact that he did not appear to be mentally ill in the true sense of the word, the patient acknowledged that his illness was advantageous to him, providing relief and a way out of an unfavourable situation, and that he might also lose his pension without it," states the record kept by the doctors.
Report Full of Contradictions
There are similar inconsistencies throughout the report. On one hand, the experts write that the accused has "contact with reality significantly loosened, unstable, disturbed, continually worsening", whilst on the next page they state that "the intellectual and memory abilities of the person being assessed are not impaired, the person being assessed is capable of correctly perceiving the situation, remembering it and verbalising experienced events."
The experts also conclude that it is not possible to say precisely what led to the man's psychotic episodes, whilst simultaneously stating that failure to abstain from substances led to acute psychosis. Viktor P. himself made clear during questioning what he thinks of the experts: "Psychiatrists are behind the times. Junkies can fool them easily."
More Than One Report Per Day
Gabriela Leblová, an expert in psychiatry, is, according to available information, among the most heavily burdened experts in the field. In 2025, she has processed 447 reports according to official documents, which means more than one report every day including weekends and holidays. So far this year she has 231 according to the register of experts.
Source: Novinky.cz