The court ruled that Krystian Bala planned and directed the grisly killing of ... Mr. Bala’s family and lawyer said they planned to appeal. “Justice was served, but the verdict will never be adequate ...

Novelist Krystian Bala said his 2003 book, Amok, was a work of fiction inspired by news reports of the 2000 torture and murder of a businessman.

A court in Wroclaw, Poland, sentenced an author to 25 years in prison for planning and directing a murder that resembled a killing in one of his novels. “Amok” author Krystian Bala suspected ...