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Daily Mirror
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Hollie Bone

'Truly evil' dad who murdered toddler son abandons appeal over life jail sentence

A depraved dad who murdered his own two-year-old son has dropped his conviction appeal to overturn a decision to send him to jail for life.

Lukasz Czapla, then 41, was unanimously found guilty of the killing of Julius Czapla in Muirhouse, Edinburgh, in November 2020.

During a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh earlier this year, a jury found him unanimously guilty of murder and he was sentenced to at least 23 years behind bars in May.

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