Tamás Portik’s son had to be led away by the police. According to the prosecutor’s suspicion, he staged a scene so that the judge could be accused of bias. According to the prosecutor’s office, this could delay the sentencing for another few months.
Earlier, the prosecutor requested a prison sentence of at least twelve years for Tamás Gyárfás in his indictment, in the case of the Fenyő murder. He requested a life sentence for the second accused, Tamás Portik.
UPDATE
The man who poured coffee in the judge’s face before the trial was detained and interrogated as a suspect by the Central Investigative Prosecutor’s Office (KNYF) for the crime of violence against an official. KNYF announced this to MTI on Tuesday.
MTI’s correspondent saw the events at the scene: before the trial of the Fenyő murder, the son of second-rate defendant Tamás Portik accused the judge of bias, whom he poured a glass of coffee over in the corridor.
In the KNYF announcement, it was written that the Metropolitan Court is conducting criminal proceedings for the crime of premeditated murder. According to the available data, the son of one of the defendants decided to obstruct the holding of Monday’s trial, or to behave in a way that could lead to the disqualification of the presiding judge, they added.
They indicated that the man had previously tried to seek personal contact with the judge, but the court legally refrained from doing so, and he was told that he had no opportunity to talk to the judge outside of the hearing.
“Nevertheless, the accused’s son waited for the judge in front of the courtroom, and when he noticed the judge coming to the trial wearing a robe, he approached him and called him to account. The presiding judge did not want to talk to him, as the man continued to insult the judge, the official the person informed him that he would lead him out to the security guards, then, avoiding him, he tried to enter the courtroom. To prevent this, the man poured the entire contents of the coffee cup in his hand into the judge’s face with a quick movement, as a result of which a large amount of cold coffee got into his eyes, face and clothes cost” – reads the announcement, according to which a journalist who was nearby prevented the action from continuing.
The trial began with a significant delay, but the court kept it despite what happened, they added.
The KNYF announced: in the investigation so far, the inspection was held, several witnesses were questioned, and the man was ordered to be detained, and the well-founded suspicion of the crime will be communicated to the perpetrator today.