Three in court over couple’s murder

Three men were remanded in custody yesterday charged with the murders of an elderly couple who were attacked with a hammer and a knife at their home.
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Apr 2011, 07:00 BST

Wojciech Ostolski, Lieneusz Bartnowski and Macaej Kus, who are all accused of killing Guiseppe and Caterina Massaro, were not required to enter pleas during a four-minute hearing at Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Court.

The defendants, who are also charged with aggravated burglary, listened to the proceedings through three Polish interpreters.

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Kus, 30, and Ostolski, 32, both of Heath Town, Wolverhampton, and 21-year-old Bartnowski, of no fixed abode, were ordered to appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court next Wednesday.

All three men were charged by police on Wednesday after a six-day inquiry into the deaths of Mr and Mrs Massaro, who came to England from Italy in the 1960s.

The bodies of Mr Massaro, 80, and his 77-year-old wife were found at their home in Heath Town on Good Friday.

Relatives of the victims spoke of their devastation at a news conference on Tuesday and revealed that the couple were due to become great-grandparents.