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Kotwica grew up in
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On the 21st of May, Kotwica broke into the home of 75-year-old local politician
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for at least 10 years. Kotwica was found guilty and convicted of murdering the
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Swedish pensioner Bo Georg Ehrlander to death. Ehrlander was later found where he was murdered, lying on the kitchen floor of his
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