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Posted on: Friday, July 24, 2009

86-year-old Ilikai murder suspect is delusional, doctor says


By Jim Dooley
Advertiser Staff Writer

An 86-year-old Polish-Canadian man charged with savagely murdering his wife here in 2007 is “delusional” and believes staff at the Hawaii State Hospital are poisoning his food and torturing him at night with “electricity and radio beams,” a doctor said in court this morning.

Tadeusz “Ted” Jandura, who survived imprisonment in Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz death camp, claims that the torture he is receiving “is worse than anything he saw at Auschwitz,” Dr. Klebert Jones testified.
“What they are doing to him is worse than Hitler,” Jones, a physician at the state hospital, said Jandura has told him.
There is a possibility that Jandura is “malingering” and faking mental illness, Jones said under questioning from Deputy Prosecutor Maurice Arrisgado.
But Jones said he doesn’t believe that to be the case.
“I think he clearly has a delusional disorder that would interfere with his ability to participate in his defense,” Jones said.
Two other mental-health professional have said they believe Jandura is mentally unfit to stand trial but a third said he believes the defendant to be fit.
Circuit Judge Michael Wilson is being asked to make the final decision.
Wilson scheduled another hearing on the matter in two weeks.
Jandura is accused of stabbing his wife Ingeborg, 82, more than 100 times at their Ilikai Hotel timeshare unit in March 2007.
The couple had been married for 58 years and vacationed in Hawai'i every winter for many years, but the Janduras had been separated after Ingeborg Jandura had accused her husband of being abusive, according to Canadian court documents.
Defense lawyer Richard Hoke said he hopes to arrange Jandura’s deportation to Poland where he has relatives who have agreed to care for him.
Jandura has dual Polish-Canadian citizenship and has lived much of his adult life in Edmonton, Alberta. He has adult children in Canada but they have no desire to be reunited with him, according to earlier statements from them.