Truth stranger than fiction as author jailed

　　A Polish crime writer has been jailed for 25 years after authorities found he had committed a murder that had been described in one of his thrillers, officials said Wednesday.

　　In his 2003 book "Amok," Krystian Bala described in detail the brutal murder of a Polish businessman.

　　Police found that the fictional crime had similarities with a case in 2000 when a body was fished out of the river Oder in the town of Wroclaw, near the German border.

　　Prosecutors said Bala had humiliated, tortured, starved and later killed his victim, who had a love affair with the writer’s wife.

　　Bala told authorities that he had taken details of the case from press reports and made up other aspects of the story.

　　日前，波兰一名犯罪小说作家被判入狱25年，因为警方发现他的一本书中详细描述了他犯下的一宗谋杀罪。这本书2003年出版，名字叫《杀人狂》，这位作家在其中详细描述了一宗谋杀一名波兰商人的案件。

　　警方发现，书中“虚构的”犯罪情节与2000年时奥得河中沉尸案非常相似。检方称，正是这位作家对那名商人进行了羞辱、折磨、饿饭并最终将其杀掉，因为这名商人与作家的妻子有染。

　　此前，作家向警方辩称，他是根据媒体对案件的报道细节才拼凑出整个案件的。