Dale Kruk (34) was sentenced at Stafford Court in England to 11 years and nine months in prison for murdering his wife, Serbian Milica Žilić (28). The crime occurred in November 2023 in their family home where police found Milica in a pool of blood and discovered the knife with which her husband had killed her.
According to the media, Dale Kruk admitted in court to killing his wife by stabbing her in the chest. The horrific crime was discovered when family members became worried because Kruk had not contacted them and called the police on November 25 last year. The police found him in Buckinghamshire and took him to the hospital. Two days later, they went to the flat where he lived with his wife and there, according to British media, they found a gruesome scene. Milica could not be saved, and a knife was also found in the flat. An autopsy determined that the cause of death of the girl from Serbia was a stab wound to the chest.
After the horrific crime, Milica Žilić’s family told British media that she had moved from Serbia “in search of a better life and her happiness.” No one could have imagined that her departure would plunge them into darkness.
“My soul hurts, everything inside me is falling apart. Pain and sorrow are destroying me from within. I hug a cold stone with her name on it, I water the dry earth with tears and repeat why? Why did he take her from me? I look at her picture in the silence of the apartment and it seems to me that she will speak, move her lips, smile at me, but I only hear my breathing and sobs,” said the murdered Serbian woman’s mother, according to reports.
The family followed the trial from Belgrade
The family of the murdered Milica Žilić, thanks to the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade which acted upon a request, followed the trial of Dale Kruk and the pronouncement of the sentence by which he was convicted of murder, from a room in the Palace of Justice. This prosecution secured a special room equipped with adequate equipment with the help of which a video conference connection was established with the competent authorities of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The unfortunate woman recalled how her daughter “hurried to be born,” her first smile, her first steps and words, her squeals, cries, and jumping in the yard, her first day at school.
“What hurts the most are the words I didn’t tell her. It hurts that I won’t be able to hug her anymore, to feel her scent. It hurts that she could still love, work, laugh, cry, rejoice, suffer. The emptiness hurts,” she said in a heartbreaking confession.
On the day she found out that she no longer had her Milica, life stopped for her. Her daughter was only supposed to live.
“I lost a part of myself, I wake up in pain, I work out of habit, mechanically. I lie in pain, but there is no strength in my eyes. Everything suddenly became a straight line. It’s hard to live like this, but I go through life with my head held high. I smile and tell myself ‘I’m fine’, but I’m lying to myself and others,” she added in a painful confession, talking about how she lives without her daughter.
The family last saw Milica a year before the crime, when she moved to the UK from Serbia.
“I look at her picture in the silence of the apartment and it seems to me that she will speak, move her lips, smile at me, but I only hear my breathing and sobs.”
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Source: Kurir, Photo: Staffordshire Police