By Leon Watson PUBLISHED: 03:28 EST, 27 April 2012 | UPDATED: 06:24 EST, 28 April 2012 A bus driver who bludgeoned a young British student to death in Poland last year has begged for leniency because he 'had a wife and family to care for'. The battered body of Kate Zaks, 21, an art student at the University of Kent, was found lying in a mud-filled ditch close to a railway track in a remote suburb of Krakow last July. A post mortem revealed she had drowned after being struck over the head several times with a hard object.
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Kate Zaks had gone to Krakow as part of her course
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The University of Kent student was found in a ditch
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Polish police arrested suspect, 45, within days
The spot where the body of @placeholder student Kate Zaks was found near Krakow in Poland