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Fury over tribute to Angelika

A punk band and a naked actress singing an elegy will feature next month in Glasgow's artistic tribute to Angelika Kluk, the Polish student murdered 18 months ago and buried in a city-centre church.

The work has been commissioned for the Glasgow International (Gi) art festival from Wilhelm Sasnal, an artist from Krakow who is championed by his admirers as "Poland's Roy Lichtenstein". It is, he says, a "very sensitive" tribute to Angelika's "naivety" rather than an attack on the morality of the Catholic Church.

But the shock effect of the £20,000 film has already been attacked by the new parish priest of St Patrick's, Anderston, where the young woman's body was found in an underground chamber near the confession box.

"What we are trying to do is like overcoming any kind of bereavement. You never forget what you've lost, but at the same time you have to try to move forward," said Canon Robert Hill, who has been priest at St Patrick's since it re-opened last August.

"My first reaction is to wonder how helpful this will be for this community to move forward, or for Angelika's family. I doubt it will be helpful at all."

Full story at the Sunday Herald.