Four members of a Polish death metal band who were arrested on kidnapping charges are also being accused of rape, court documents reveal.
Members of the band Decapitated were arrested Saturday September 9 on charges of kidnapping a woman after a concert on August 31 in Spokane, Washington.
That woman also says that the band members – Michal Lysejko, 31, Waclaw Kieltyka, 35, Rafal Piotrowski, 31, and Hubert Wiecek, 30 – sexually assaulted her in the bathroom of their tour bus.
Court documents made public Monday say the rape happened during a party with band members and fans on the group’s tour bus.
Members of the band Decapitated were arrested Saturday September 9 on charges of kidnapping a woman after a concert on August 31 in Spokane, Washington. Pictured are Rafal Piotrowski, 31, left, and Waclaw Kieltyka, 35, right
That woman also says that the band members sexually assaulted her on their tour bus. Pictured are Michal Lysejko, 31, left, and Hubert Wiecek, 30, right
The band members were arrested Santa Ana, California, on allegations of first degree kidnapping and are jailed there while awaiting extradition to Spokane.
They ‘plan to fully fight the allegations that have been brought against them and are confident that their side of the story will be heard,’ the band’s lawyer Steve Graham said in an email Tuesday.
Decapitated had been touring with the Australian band Thy Art is Murder, and performed several shows after the Spokane concert before being arrested.
The alleged victim and her friend told police in Spokane that after attending the show they ended up speaking with the band’s members and were invited to drink in their tour bus, according to court documents.
After getting on the bus the women said they quickly became uncomfortable.
Then, when the alleged victim went to use the bus’s bathroom, she claims she was followed inside by one of the band members.
The alleged victim and her friend told police in Spokane that after attending the show they ended up speaking with the band’s members and were invited to drink in their tour bus. Pictured left to right are Lysejko, Piotrowski, Kieltykaand Wiecek
The woman tried to push him away, ‘but he grabbed her arm and spun her around to where she was facing the sink and mirror in the bathroom,’ court documents said.
‘She saw in the mirror and out of the corner of her eye each of the band members taking turns raping her.’
Her friend said that she watched the band members raping the woman, according to court documents.
After the attack, the alleged victim said a band member helped her get dressed and carried her out of the bus.
The woman walked away from the tour bus and immediately called 911, court documents said.
By the time a police officer arrived on the scene, the tour bus was gone.
The woman was examined at a hospital where she was found to have upper arm bruises consistent with being restrained and other injuries, the documents said.
Band members were interviewed last Thursday by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office detectives. They were all shown a photo of the alleged victim. Pictured are Kieltyka, left, and Wiecek, right
The band’s attorney said the band members won’t fight extradition and have witnesses who say the alleged victim came to visit the band of her free will and ‘left on good terms’. Pictured are Lysejko, left, and Piotrowski, right
Band members were interviewed last Thursday by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office detectives. They were all shown a photo of the alleged victim.
Lysejko told the police he didn’t recognize the woman when he was shown the picture. Kieltyka told officers he saw two members of the band engage in sex acts with the woman in the bus bathroom, court documents said.
Piotrowski said the women were at a party on the bus but declined additional comment, court documents said.
Wiecek said the two women had been on the bus but he did not see what was going on, court documents said.
The women were not identified in the court documents.
Graham, the band’s attorney, told The Spokesman-Review newspaper, that the band members would not fight extradition.
‘We have witnesses that can testify to the fact that the accuser came to visit the band of her own free will and left on good terms,’ Graham told the newspaper.