Rafal Lewsza jailed for killing homeless Polish migrant Miro Glaza

Flowers were laid at the spot where Miro Glaza was attacked at a vigil late last year. Photograph: Josh Loeb
A man from Hackney who killed Polish migrant Miro Glaza in the Narrow Way, Hackney Central, has been jailed.
Rafal Lewsza, 37, of Leaside Road, Clapton, was sentenced to 19 months in prison at Snaresbrook Crown Court after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of Miroslaw ‘Miro’ Glaza, 50.
Mr Glaza, known as Miro Glaza, was drinking with a group of friends on 1 November last year when Mr Lewsza punched him, causing him to fall face first onto the pavement.
Police arrived at the scene and spoke to the group, who told them Mr Glaza had drunkenly fallen over. However, witnesses from a nearby property told officers that Mr Lewsza was responsible.
Mr Glaza was taken to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he died five days later from a resultant bleed on the brain.
Detective Inspector Robert Pack of the Homicide and Major Crime Command said: “Miroslaw Glaza came to the UK looking to make a better life for himself. He was not a violent man and his death has naturally left his family and friends devastated.”
Mr Glaza leaves behind a wife and two children who still live in his home city of Bydgoszcz, Poland. He regularly attended a weekly soup kitchen in the Round Chapel on Lower Clapton Road, and volunteers held a vigil in December at the spot where he was attacked.
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This is not true story about what has happened!!!
Who gave you right to published informations wich are not true!
Mr Glaza was a street drinker who accosted R Lewsza by the cashpoint asking for money. Mr Lewsza was on the way coming back after 14 hours of work, but did gave Mr Glaza some money and also went to buy him and his friends a beer. Mr Lewsza and Mr Glaza known each other from the time before Mr Gaza has been deported from UK! Glaza left his family, chose go back to uk to his previous street life! Mr Lewsza spoke to him, as usual offered him help with looking for a job, and some normal place to leave instead being on the street and drinking every day. But Mr Glaza was not pleased with that and start to be very rude to Lewsza. Lewsza did slap his face and woke away, when suddenly saw that Glaza fell down to the ground. He get back to him, get him up and sat him be the lamp. In the meantime two passing by guys called the ambulance and in few minutes ambulance has arrived. Friends from Glaza and also Lewsza told the police that Glaza fell over, but somebody said that early Lewsza slap him. Lewsza has been arrested and later on he admit slapping Glaza ones. He has plaid guilty to Mansloughter.
Judge William Kennedy told Lewsza: ‘This is truly a tragic and unusual case. I accept on this particular day you met someone who you had known – you had befriended that man as a fellow national.
‘You had helped him and chosen to voluntarily give him money and employment as you tried to save him from himself.
‘He was deported and you lost contact with him and then suddenly met him again – it was evident from his condition that he had reverted to his old ways.
‘He was drunk and homeless and I can understand your great disappointment – you spoke to him and argued about that which he had become.
‘He asked you for money and despite your concern you gave him some and when you turned to walk away he was abusive.
‘You were sober and he was drunk and the mistake you made was to react violently to that which had been said to you.
‘I accept that you did not intend to do him serious harm but of course he was intensely vulnerable.
‘He offered you no violence and his reactions were so slowed by drink, it prevented him from protecting himself as he fell.
‘A man who strikes a drunk man take a terrible risk and of course as you have said yourself, this is something which you will live with for the rest of your life.
Please respect both of the Families and stop writing not true facts!
I don’t understand why you are published they wrong information regarding the accident what took place in Hackney in last Year.
This is a very sad story and could happen to anybody in their entire life time but we cannot judge people just like that as we know there was a big difference between R.Lewsza life and M.Glaza. R.Lewsza is a hard working man,partner and a father of 2 children and was also the head of his family always paying respect to everyone. R.Lewsza was offering to find a job for M.Glaza many times and was giving him money. When other people didn’t pay attention to someone like M.Glaza a man from the street. You need to understand the disappointment of R.Lewsza after all his hard work to help M.Glaza being abused by M.Glaza. Of course the mistake he made was to slap M.Glaza but we cant call R.Lewsza a murderer!!. THIS IS WRONG!!!!!!
In my opinion writing the wrong facts and using the names and addresses is disrespectful. By respecting both of the family’s please stop.
Please stop damaging the future live of the person R-L by publishing they wrong way of they case .
You should treat they story as one of the cases happen in life not to mention names or picture because the person he got his punishment from his mistake or accident .
Very sad from you .leave the family future to continue.
I hope the person regrets and learn from his mistake
thanks.