Third man charged following assault on Polish victim in Bognor

Mariusz Filarowicz, 30, of no fixed address, was arrested following a police investigation called Brinmore, over a series of assaults on a

33-year-old Eastern European man at an abandoned property in

central Bognor.

According to police, the victim suffered life-changing injuries during the incident in January, which included facial fractures and burns to his back.

At a Worthing Magistrates' Court hearing on Tuesday, March 9, Filarowicz was remanded in custody to appear at Chichester Crown Court on May 20.

The case follows several serious incidents believed to involve Eastern European men over the past nine months. This includes a third arrest last month over the murder of Polish man Marek Pudlowski last summer.

Police have yet to make an arrest in the case and have released all the suspects on bail. But officers leading the case have stressed

the key to solving the murder is within the Eastern European community in Bognor.

A police reward of 5,000 remains outstanding in relation to the murder, in which Mr Pudlowski was found dead on a bench in Waterloo Gardens near the seafront on August 3.

He was seen just hours before his death in a distressed state entering HSBC bank in Bognor, where staff attended to him after it appeared he had been attacked.

A poster campaign has subsequently been launched with leaflets about the incident being distributed around the town in Polish and Russian in a bid to make a decisive breakthrough in the case.

In another shocking incident in February, police issued an appeal for witnesses after a Polish man was attacked by three men in Hotham Park and left with serious injuries.

Language barriers had proved a problem in his providing accurate descriptions of those responsible for the incident.

Police are also investigating an unexplained death of a man,

also believed to be of Eastern European origin, which happened in January.

He was discovered at the bottom of a balcony at the Queensway by a resident out walking their dog in central Bognor.

The man, aged 35-45, has yet to be identified despite police releasing a computer generated e-fit of him.

Officers believe it is was likely to have been a tragic accident, but

the incident remains unsolved as there was nothing to identify him on his body.

Anyone with information about any of these incidents should contact police on 0845 60 70 999.

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