Man gets seven years for starving grandmother to death

The regional court in Plzen has sent a 23-year-old man to seven years in jail for starving his ailing grandmother to death. The man left his 77-year-old grandmother, who was bedridden, without food for what doctors say must have been at least a month. She was taken to hospital after being found by social workers, starving and severely dehydrated, and weighing less than 30 kilograms. Despite getting immediate attention she died two days later. The electricity supply to the flat had been cut off because of debts and the grandson allegedly spent his grandmother’s entire old age pension on drugs.