Pelka Case: Boy 'Looked Like He Had Worms'

By Lisa Dowd, Midlands Correspondent

The aunt of a four-year-old boy who died after allegedly being starved over several months has told a court that she thought he had "worms".

The prosecution claims that Daniel Pelka died of a head injury after being subjected to a campaign of "incomprehensible" cruelty by his mother and stepfather.

Magdelena Luczak and her partner Mariusz Krezolek deny murder and causing or allowing Daniel's death.

Speaking through an interpreter, Luczak's sister Sylvia, 24, told Birmingham Crown Court that she had discussed with her sister Daniel's unusual behaviour at school, where he would steal food.

"It was very difficult for me," she told the court.

"I felt very anxious about that, I thought he had worms.

"I experienced sometimes, when he was at my house, he ate a lot and then he was hungry again after that."

Later Ms Luczak told the jury: "Because he was eating so much, yet he was still very thin, I thought something must be wrong with him."

She said her sister assured her that she was feeding her child and that Daniel had seen a doctor one month before his death in March last year.

She also said Magdelena told her that Daniel's natural father "had the same eating problems".

Ms Luczak said she had noticed her nephew getting thinner three months before his death. She saw him a few days before he died and told the court he "was pale and sad".

Ms Luczak said her sister had had bad relationships with men and that "sometimes she drank too much".

She said the couple argued when they were drinking together and became violent.

Jurors were told Krezolek "wasn't nice" towards Daniel, and called him "ginger".

She said she thought Daniel was "scared of him" and she had seen her sister smacking the boy on his bottom. She had once noticed a bruise on his head.

Ms Luczak said she had told her sister to leave her partner and offered to help her.

She told the court she was called to the couple's house after Daniel's death and said the couple told her he had been sleeping when he stopped breathing.

Later she had a conversation with his stepfather, saying: "He said that Daniel was beaten up several times and nothing happened before, then Mariusz started crying."

She said her sister was sitting holding Daniel's photo at the time: "She didn't react at all when he said that ... I think she was shocked."

The prosecution has alleged that Daniel was "imprisoned" in his bedroom at his home in Coventry and force-fed salt.

Daniel's body was found to have 24 distinct areas of injury and was "extremely emaciated".

Krezolek, 33, and Luczak, 27, have both admitted a charge of child cruelty but deny causing Daniel's death.

The trial continues.

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