Pair convicted of Shipley murder called police the next morning
Zbigniew Chlebek and Beata Walczak have been convicted of murdering Jaroslav Daniszewski in a sustained attack in Shipley, West Yorkshire. The case drew attention to the couple’s failure to seek help after the assault: they called police the next morning and claimed to have found him dead.
Prosecutors said Daniszewski, 43, died on the evening of 20 April 2026, about a day and a half before the call. Police found him with severe head and face injuries, along with a broken, blood-stained iron. Walczak was seen leaving the premises the following morning in blood-stained clothes; both defendants were found guilty at Bradford Crown Court on 28 October.
In short
- Two people were convicted of murdering Jaroslav Daniszewski in Shipley.
- He was attacked with an iron and left without help.
- The defendants called police the following morning, claiming they had found him.
Explained simply
Shipley is a town in West Yorkshire, near Bradford. Jaroslav Daniszewski, a 43-year-old man, died there after a violent assault in April 2026.
Zbigniew Chlebek and Beata Walczak were the two people accused in the case. A murder conviction means a jury found that a defendant was criminally responsible for an unlawful killing.
The case concerns both the fatal attack and the delay before police were contacted. The time and circumstances of that call formed part of the evidence considered at Bradford Crown Court.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Pair murdered man with an iron before calling police and saying ‘there is a man lying here and, well, he’s dead’”.