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A New Zealand man charged after a roof collapsed in Poland, killing 65 people, is out on bail after 13 months in a Polish prison.
Bruce Robinson was charged with accidentally causing a catastrophe after the snow-covered roof of a building owned by his employer collapsed in the southern city of Katowice in January last year.
He was released last week after more than a year crammed into a 15 square metre cell with seven other prisoners, his father Dave Robinson said today.
Mr Robinson described the situation in jail for his son: "He was only allowed out for an hour a day, one shower a week and a limited amount of food.
"If we sent him a food parcel, chocolates or anything like that, it came off his allocated amount."
He was released on $145,000 bail and cannot leave Poland, said Mr Robinson.
Although his son had been charged he has yet to appear in court.
The trial was unlikely to be held before November and could drag on for years, although his lawyer has told him the charges would be thrown out.
Mr Robinson claimed the charges were farcical.
His son was managing director of Expomedia Poland, which had bought another company called MTK, run by the Polish Government.
A year before Bruce Robinson joined Expomedia, MTK constructed the building which subsequently collapsed.
Two years after he joined Expomedia, the company bought MTK.
That was three years after the building was built, Mr Robinson said.
Bruce Robinson was puzzled about what he had done wrong, his father said.
- NZPA
