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The body of Julita Kotas – who had been missing for over a year – was found in thick undergrowth, near a road from Krakow to Olkusz, southern Poland.
A DNA test has been carried out, as confirmed by Piotr Kosmaty, press spokesman for the Appellate Prosecutor's Office in Krakow.
“Tests have been carried out and her identity has been confirmed,” he told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
The remains were initially located in April last year, but they were not immediately linked to the missing woman.
An earlier police report noted that the remains – which were severely deteriorated – had been discovered “in a wooded thicket five metres from the road” and that they had “probably been dug up by animals.”
Yesterday's confirmation follows media reports last week that blood had been found in the woman's house in the village of Lednica Gorna, near the town of Wieliczka, south of Krakow.
No further comments on the case will be made by prosecutors at present, owing to the sensitivity of the connection to the woman's son-in-law, who Kosmaty says is due to be interviewed over the matter.
Dr. Brunon K. (full name withheld under Polish privacy laws), a former lecturer at Krakow Agricultural University, was arrested on November 9, for allegedly planning to blow up Poland's parliament.
Last week, a Krakow court ruled that he should be detained for a further three months.
Prior to his arrest, Brunon. K had been under surveillance by the Internal Security Agency (ABW).
Prosecutors claimed in November that he was a nationalist and an anti-semite, and that he believed that “the situation in the country was going in the wrong direction because all leading governmental positions were occupied by 'foreigners',” as cited by the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
Last week Brunon K. made a statement through his lawyers confirming that he had planned to blow up parliament, but that his bid was not rooted in political ideology but rather sprung from his resentment to politicians in general, who he described as “a leisured class.” (nh)