Chef Jozef Hanuska, who cut out girlfriend’s organs was inspired by the Bratislava Strangler

  A chef accused of butchering his girlfriend is the son of an infamous murderer put to death for killing two women when he was a toddler. J...

 

A chef accused of butchering his girlfriend is the son of an infamous murderer put to death for killing two women when he was a toddler.

Jozef Hanuska, 47, was arrested after the disembowelled body of his partner, named only as Patricia, was found in her apartment in the Slovakian capital Bratislava.

She had been horrifically mutilated, with her heart carved out and placed next to her corpse, her intestines and other organs stuffed into a bucket. A British passport sat on the sheet covering her body. What part that played in the murder remains unclear.

But the most disturbing aspect of the crime is its haunting echo of events four decades ago when Hanuska’s father, known as the Bratislava Strangler, haunted the city.

Jozef Hanuska’s father

Jozef, then aged three, spent the night of September 12, 1979, with his mum at her parents’ home.

His dad, Stefan Pantl, wasn’t with them – at least not for the whole night.

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Stefan Pantl was sentenced to death for his crimes when Hanuska was a child

Jozef Hanuska was said to have been found hiding in a cellar after Patricia’s body was discovered

Hanuska is accused of murdering Patricia and arranging her body in a sickening display

Pantl was convicted of all charges and sentenced to death.

After Slovkia’s supreme court threw out an appeal the punishment was carried out on July 30, 1981, when Jozef Hanuska was four or five.

What is Jozef Hanuska accused of?

More than 40 years later, Jozef now stands accused of a similarly horrifying crime.

Hanuska allegedly inflicted a slew of horrific cuts on 48-year-old Patricia, who was found dead on Thursday lying naked on her bed.

She had deep gashes on her neck, cheek and thigh, while her chest had been ‘opened’, according to local media.

Several of her organs and a piece of her thigh were said to have been cut out and placed in a bucket next to the bed, and her heart was found nearby on the floor.

Slovakia’s president, Zuzana Caputova, condemned Patricia’s murder as a ‘heinous and reprehensible act’.

In a Facebook post she wrote: ‘I was very saddened by the news about the brutal murder of 48-year-old Patrícia in Ružinov, Bratislava, who, according to media reports, suffered from serious intimate partner violence.

‘I am very sorry and express my sincere condolences to the family and close friends.

‘It is unacceptable that such the most tragic forms of violence against women occur repeatedly in our country.’