Naked man with cricket bat ‘abducted boy in Toys R Us’

A MAN ran naked through a busy toy store before picking up and abducting a six-year-old boy and assaulting his grandmother with a cricket bat, a court has heard.

By The Newsroom Tuesday, 7th July 2015, 7:14 pm

A Toys R Us store. A man is in court for a string of alleged offences, including indecent exposure and assault. Picture: Getty Images

Przemyslaw Kaluzny faces a total of 13 charges over an alleged series of incidents on Easter Sunday.

He is first alleged to have stolen a mobile phone and baseball bat from a neighbour’s flat before intentionally exposing his genitals to her by removing his clothing and lying on her bed.

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Kaluzny is then said to have stolen a car key from the flat before taking and driving away a Renault Laguna car from outside the flat in Dundee’s Watson Street.

He is then alleged to have driven the motor from the Baxter Park area of the city to the Kingsway Retail Park without insurance and without a licence.

A further charge alleges that he had an offensive weapon with him in public.

Prosecutors say Kaluzny then went into the Toys R Us and behaved in a threatening and abusive manner by removing his clothing until he was naked, shouting, brandishing the bat, struggling violently with staff and customers and placed those staff and customers in a state of fear and alarm.

Kaluzny is further accused of an offence of public indecency by moving through the store whilst naked.

The 41-year-old is then alleged to have abducted a six-year-old boy, who cannot be named, by grabbing his arm, dragging him along the ground, picking him up and continuing to hold him and taking him from the shop against his will.

Kaluzny then allegedly assaulted the boy’s 67-year-old grandmother by striking her on the head with a cricket bat to her injury.

A final charge alleges that he wilfully destroyed property belonging to another while he was being transported from the store to Dundee’s police HQ in that he snapped the plastic casing and metal connecting bar of a pair of police handcuffs.

Kaluzny, 41, of Watson Street, Dundee, entered no plea to the charges during his first public appearance on the charges at Dundee Sheriff Court.

Nicola Brown, defending, said investigations were ongoing as to Kaluzny’s sanity at the time of the offence and his fitness to stand trial.

She said: “There is to be a psychiatric report made available by next week.”