Man accused of murdering client in Kameničná dies in prison hospital in Trenčín
A man accused of murdering a 27-year-old client at a social services facility in Kameničná died in early November at a prison hospital in Trenčín. An autopsy is to clarify the cause of death.
Death of accused alters course of investigation in Kameničná case
A man accused of murdering a 27-year-old client at a social services facility in Kameničná died on 1 November 2026 at the Hospital for the Accused and Sentenced in Trenčín. The case, which the entire country had been following month after month, has taken an unexpected turn according to Nový Čas.
The Prison and Judicial Guard Service confirmed that death "was probably influenced by disease-related causes without signs of external culpability". An ordered autopsy is to determine the precise cause of death. Police have simultaneously begun their own investigation in connection with the death.
The 27-year-old accused was hospitalised on a psychiatric ward at the time of death. According to information from the social services facility, he had not been declared unfit to perform legal acts and, apart from mental illness, suffered from no other serious ailment.
Before his arrest, the man had been a client at the same facility as the murdered woman. According to available information, their relationship was close and friendly. After the crime, police officers guarded him directly at the facility for several days; subsequently, the criminal justice authorities began investigating the case.
"The man was charged with the serious crime of murder," stated Viktória Borloková, spokeswoman for the Regional Police Directorate in Nitra.
At the time of death, the case was at the post-charge stage and expert evidence proceedings were underway. "Expert evidence proceedings were being conducted as in any other criminal matter," said Jaroslav Maček, deputy regional prosecutor in Nitra.
The death of the accused raises several unanswered questions. It is unclear what direction the murder investigation would have taken had the man remained alive. Questions also remain as to whether, given his mental illness and disability, he was capable of fully understanding the criminal proceedings being conducted against him. The case of the death of the young woman from Kameničná thus remains without a definitive court judgement.
Source: Nový Čas