Man sentenced to more than five years in jail over Aberdeen death
He was drunk when he stabbed his friend following a row
A man who fatally stabbed his friend after a drunken argument in Aberdeen will spend nearly five and a half years behind bars.
Dawid Majewicz attacked Jacek Dembinski outside Rosehill Court in August 2024. The 43-year-old later died in hospital after undergoing emergency surgery.
Majewicz - who's also 43 - pleaded guilty to culpable homicide last month, and today at the high court in Edinburgh was sentenced to 5 years and 4 months in prison.
In passing sentence, judge Lord Scott said : "Dawid Tadeusz Majewic, you have pled guilty to the crime of culpable homicide by killing Jacek Dembinksi on 27 August 2024, just over 7 months ago.
You did this by struggling with him, thereby inflicting or otherwise causing blunt force trauma to his head, striking him on the arm with a knife and failing to summon emergency medical assistance for him, all in consequence of which he died on 29 August 2024 at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Being drunk was no excuse for what he did
Obviously being under the influence of alcohol is no excuse whatsoever for what you did.
I note that you might now be ready to accept help with what is obviously a problem with alcohol. It is very much in your interests, as well as those of wider society, that you do so.
The custodial sentence will be an extended sentence of 8 years. The length of the custodial term of that extended sentence is 5 years 4 months with a 2 year 8 month extension period for the duration of which you will be under licence on conditions fixed by the Scottish Ministers."