Writer convicted of murder he described in novel

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LONDON - A Polish author, travel writer and intellectual whose best-selling novel described a grisly murder has been jailed for 25 years for committing the crime he had so vividly portrayed.

The killing of Dariusz Janiszewski in 2000 was notably gruesome.

The victim - a successful, popular professional - was humiliated, starved and tortured, before having his hands bound with a rope that was looped around his neck in a noose.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10462024&pnum=0
 

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That is such a strange story that if you wrote it as fiction, no one would be able to suspend disbelief. Very, very weird.
 

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Yeah! This is the plot from Basic Instinct! I wonder if his book sales were really that bad? And will he benefit now if the sales jump?