World's Most Evil Killers - Season 6, Episode 6 - Pawel Relowicz - Full Episode | Forensic Files

NARRATOR: January the 31st, 2019, Hull, East Yorkshire, England. 21-year-old student Libby Squire was on a night out
with her fellow students from Hull University. The group ended up at a nightclub in the city.
But unfortunately, having drunk too much, Libby was refused entry. He was looking for somebody exactly like Libby.
NARRATOR: By day, Pawel Relowicz was a normal ordinary family man. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: Because abusers
don't come with a big flashing warning sign on their heads. They look like the man next door.
NARRATOR: By night, he prowled the streets of Hull indulging his insatiable sexual appetite.
It wasn't just about watching anymore. It was about confronting them and terrifying them.
His deviant desires had escalated to a point that he needed to go further. NARRATOR: Cold and alone, Libby Squire was in the wrong place
at the wrong time. GEOFFREY WANSEL: Unfortunately, by a malignant twist of fate,
one of the people who saw Libby Squire weaving slightly along the road after leaving the taxi
was Pawel Relowicz. NARRATOR: For Pawel Relowicz, women only existed to fulfill his extreme sexual needs.
He didn't care who Libby Squire was. And once he was finished with her, he didn't care what happened to her as long as she was silenced
and couldn't reveal Pawel Relowicz as one of the world's most evil killers. [music playing]
January the 31st, 2019, Pawel Relowicz was doing what he did most nights, prowling
the streets of Hull in East Yorkshire, England looking for an easy target. Ordinary family life, ordinary job,
an unexceptional human being, a bit of a nobody really. But you would never have imagined that he was
or what lay behind that was this sexual predator who was going out and committing offense after offense
in a sexually-motivated way. NARRATOR: At 8 minutes past midnight, 21-year-old student Libby Squire accepted
a lift from Pawel Relowicz. He satisfied his own deviant sexual impulses by selecting somebody that was completely
innocent on a night out for his own selfish desires. NARRATOR: The entire evening was caught on camera.
The only person who could have killed Libby Squire was Pawel Relowicz. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: We're like watching murder in slow motion
here. We're watching an offender escalate in their behavior, and I really wish that something would have happened here
to put the brakes on him then, and perhaps he wouldn't have gone on to kill Libby.
NARRATOR: In less than 15 minutes, Relowicz had abducted Libby Squire, driven her to the playing fields,
and found a way to dispose of her body. No remorse, no regret, throw her in the river.
Was she clothed, fully clothed, not clothed? We have no way of knowing. But that single act, he's already raped her.
He's probably already killed her, and then he throws her into the river. Now that is an act of most grotesque wickedness.
NARRATOR: This killer's story begins on June the 25th, 1994. Pawel Relowicz was born and raised in the small town
of Warszewice in Poland. The town had a population of around 650, and is just over 74 miles West of Warsaw, the capital city.
He was the second eldest of eight children. His father worked away a lot, and so his mother
was the patriarch, so to speak, of the family. He was a strange boy by all accounts, but unremarkable.
The thing that was remarkable about him was, as soon as he hit adolescence, he became sexually obsessed.
It would be fair to say I think that he was a sexual deviant from a very early age.
His first girlfriend, it was always said, dumped him because of his fascination with pornography.
And that was at the age of 14. In Poland, Relowicz was addicted to hardcore pornography.
Now, an addiction to hardcore pornography is not going to create a sexual predator.
However, we know that hardcore pornography can desensitize people who watch it, who are addicted to it.
But also it means that they objectify women. NARRATOR: Relowicz just graduated from catering college where he learned how
to become a skilled butcher. Living in Poland with his mother wasn't necessarily Relowicz's perfect existence.
I think the only real industry in the tiny village he was born was a beet factory, a sugar beet factory.
And he clearly didn't want to stay there. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: But this is in an era of the internet
so he will be aware that actually there is a wider world out there. There are other things to experience.
NARRATOR: Relowicz's elder sister had already left home and moved to the UK. She was living in the city of Hull
in the northeast of England. Now why she chose Hull I think partly it must be because there's a Polish community there.
But anyway, she got a job and liked it. And so in 2012 at the age of 18, Relowicz leaves Poland and goes
to Hull to join his sister. He gets a job as a butcher in a factory in North Malton in Yorkshire.
Not that far away to drive. And as far as anyone knows, he's a really ordinary, rather open-faced, affable enough,
cheerful, likeable. I think some members of the Polish community described him as always smiling.
NARRATOR: In 2014 on a trip home to Poland, Relowicz met a young Polish woman who returned
to live in Hull with him. Two years later in July 2016, they welcomed their first child, a son, into the world.
He settles down very quickly, almost immediately on arrival in the UK. And this I think is a bit of a veneer,
it's a bit of a performance. When you look at him, you see the family man, he's a father.
And he comes across as quite approachable and nice and a regular guy, so he's got this whole set up going on.
But that really is a bit of a screen behind which there's a lot of darkness going on.
Relowicz develops what I would like to call a habit of night stalking. Family are back home, and he goes out.
And he proceeds to prowl the streets. Now, he was very limited in the area in which he prowled.
He was really a small, probably a mile square. Some of the victims were less than four or five minutes' walk
from his own home. NARRATOR: July the 23rd, 2017. Relowicz stopped at a ground floor apartment
with a large Bay window facing the pavement. The young woman is in bed with her boyfriend,
and they're making love. And suddenly, she notices that it's rather lighter than it was
before because Relowicz is outside the window, but he's pushed his head through the curtains
that had been drawn so that you can watch them. NARRATOR: It took a moment for the woman
to comprehend what she was seeing. It's one of the classics of any voyeur. They need something in front of them to get them truly excited.
He falls into that category of a power-driven offender. He would watch people, and then he
would go back and masturbate at the scene and leave evidence of that. Something we know about sexually-motivated offenders
who fall into the power topology is that they get enjoyment and a thrill from seeing the distress in their victims.
NARRATOR: The boyfriend jumped out of the bed, and Relowicz ran away. At around 3:45 in the morning, the couple's flatmate came home
and found a used condom and a pair of knickers on their front door handle. So that habit, it didn't just bring out of the air.
It didn't just, oh, I think I'll be a voyeur. He must have grown into it, but we
don't know exactly how because we don't have the evidence. NARRATOR: The following afternoon when the flatmates
spoke, the victim realized that a set of house keys was also missing. The police came and lifted a set of fingerprints
from the window. but found no match in their database. On July the 30th, barely a week after the first incident,
a woman lying in bed woke up to find Relowicz inside her home staring through the glass panels of her bedroom door.
Her boyfriend came home and found the front door open and money missing. Placed next to a child's toy was an unwrapped condom
and dirty underwear taken from the washing basket in the kitchen. There was no match for either fingerprints
or DNA found at the scene. But then within his offending, he's seeking dominance and control.
He goes back after he's watching people through windows for example to leave his DNA, to leave what he's called
his calling card of condoms with his semen in to strike fear into those women. NARRATOR: December the 8th, 2017, a female neighbor
of Rolovich returned home and found the top window of a ground floor room hanging open.
She rightly suspected there'd been a burglary. But the only things missing were three sex toys taken from a box
in the bottom of her wardrobe. A fingerprint was found on the inside of the window,
but no match was found. But what's significant is that the targets of his stealing
are underwear, knickers particularly. There's some money, but that's not what drives Relowicz on.
What drives Relowicz on is the sex. That's the thread, the theme, the motive behind everything
that he does. And he does it repeatedly and I would say relentlessly. NARRATOR: Relowicz's behavior would escalate dangerously.
Just watching was no longer enough. February the 16th, 2018, Hull, East Yorkshire.
A woman who just got out of the shower and was in her bedroom wearing only a towel.
She changed into her night clothes and was climbing into bed when she saw Relowicz's
inches from her window. Keeping calm, she hid under the bed clothes and texted her housemates who were upstairs.
The housemates ran outside and shouted at Relowicz, who fled the scene. She has the foresight to actually
take a photograph of him. But all he really got is a man in a hoodie. It's sexual intimidation.
I'm in control of this and you're not. It is in a sense a prelude to rape. NARRATOR: In June that year, 24-year-old Pawel Relowicz
and his girlfriend got married, and their second son was born four months later in October.
Relowicz continued living a double life of being a normal, affable family man by day
and asexual predator by night. Relowicz was a chameleon. And we often find this with abusers, with sexual predators.
They present themselves as nice guys, as regular people, because abusers don't come with a big flashing
warning sign on their heads. They look like the man next door. And if they were abusive all of the time,
they wouldn't be able to get away with doing the things that they do. NARRATOR: December, 2018.
To explain his nocturnal behavior, Relowicz would tell his wife that he was going
out jogging late at night. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: This tells me that he wants to keep his wife happy.
He's not going to be completely honest with her about what he's doing, because she serves a purpose for him.
She puts a roof over his head and meals on the table and enables him this veneer of family life.
But at the same time, he wants the best of both worlds. He wants to be able to go out and prey on young women,
because he sees women as objects. They are useful to him. And his wife is useful to him.
And the women that he preys on are useful to him for different reasons. So what is underlying all of this is misogyny.
He feels entitled to treat women exactly as he pleases. NARRATOR: By January 2019, Relowicz
had progressed from voyeurism and burglary to carrying out acts of public indecency.
He is seen masturbating in front of two women in the street. And I find this interesting because what we know
from indecent exposers and voyeurism is that when it becomes more severe in the form
of masturbating in public, following women, that's a sign that it's becoming more serious.
And his risk was going up at this point. To be fair to the police, they had bits of pieces of DNA
and indeed bits and pieces of fingerprints. But they had no person of interest, no prime suspect.
They didn't have someone people could point the finger at. NARRATOR: Like many predators, Relowicz
had a specific geographical footprint where he committed his crimes. So we know that he was stalking that area.
He'd offending in that area, and he was deliberately targeting that area because he knew that students would be out enjoying
themselves, doing absolutely what students should be able to do in safety. When we look at the kind of things he's been engaging in,
voyeurism, masturbating in the street, this sexual predation, it can escalate. These behaviors can escalate into murder,
into serious physical harm. So this is something that we need to be acutely aware of when we have
an individual who is caught engaging in this kind of behavior. We have to see this as a potential trajectory
that they can take and take this very seriously indeed. His deviant desires had escalated to a point
that he needed to go further. He was planning to do what he did that night because his desires had escalated so
much in his offending, in his sexual offending that it was no longer satisfied by that.
NARRATOR: January the 31st, 2019. 21-year-old Libby Squire was a philosophy student at Hull University.
She was from High Wycombe Buckinghamshire, England, the eldest of four siblings.
Libby had chosen hull for her undergraduate degree, specifically for the reputation of the philosophy faculty.
Despite the fact the University was over 200 miles from her home, Libby was very close to her family
and spoke or texted with her mom every day. Libby Squire was a very smart, very intelligent,
very articulate young woman who was studying philosophy at Hull University. So to be able to even get onto a course to study philosophy,
you have to be incredibly talented and academically achieve very high grades. So she was somebody who had significant potential
for her future. On the night of January the 31st, 2019, Libby Squire is out for a party.
She goes to another student's house, all in the same area ironically, that rhetoric has been
stalking for several years. And they clearly have a very good time. About 11:00, a group of them leave the house
and go to a nightclub in Hull called The Welly. NARRATOR: It was a freezing night with snow on the ground.
The group of students arrived at the nightclub at 11:20. Unfortunately, Libby has had perhaps
rather too much to drink. And the doorman at The Welly nightclub say, I'm sorry,
we're not letting you in. You've already had too much. NARRATOR: To make sure she got home safely,
Libby's friends put her in a taxi outside the nightclub at 11:30. We think that she lost her keys because she
didn't go into her house. So there, suddenly, she becomes even more vulnerable because she's wandering the streets
upset in a drunk state. NARRATOR: Libby's movements were captured on CCTV cameras
from 11:40 to 11:49. Near the junction of Haworth Street and Beverley Road, two men were seen trying to help her,
as do several other people. Libby refuses their help and wanders off. At 11:55, Pawel Relowicz is picked up on camera in Haworth
Street exiting his parked car. He appears to have seen Libby Squire then disappears from view.
At midnight, he's seen on foot tracking Libby Squire from the opposite side of the street.
GEOFFREY WANSEL: I think at that point, Libby was probably tired, very unsteady on her feet
and unfortunately, accepted the lift with Relowicz. I've worked on many rape cases and many sexual assault cases
where a woman has been drunk, and the perpetrator has approached them in order to help them.
That is often a very clever way that a perpetrator approaches a woman who is in need to offer them
help and assistance with the intention that they're going to harm them. NARRATOR: February the 1st, 2019.
At 12:08 AM, Relowicz's silver Vauxhall Astra drove off with Libby in the car. He was not being a good Samaritan.
Relowicz was opportunistically taking advantage of a young woman who was unable to defend herself.
For me, what makes this case horrific to look at, one of the most horrific that I've looked at in a long time
is the number of what ifs. On that night, there's so many points that you just want to cry for her.
Not being allowed into the nightclub because she was too drunk. Her friends bringing her into a taxi.
And they thought they were putting her into a cab and she was going home safely.
It's one of those cases that at each point, you just want to scream, no. Because then the next person that comes along
is the man that takes her life. NARRATOR: February the 1st, 2019, Hull, East Yorkshire, England.
Just past midnight, 21-year-old Libby Squire had accepted a lift from Pawel Relowicz.
This would have been a terrifying experience for Libby because in the beginning she perhaps thinks that here's
a man who's helping me out, and very quickly realizes that's not what's happening at all.
This is somebody who intends me serious harm. So Relowicz we know is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
He's very good at that charm syndrome. He's very good at disarming people and making himself appear friendly and approachable
and caring. But then he switches very, very quickly and the real him emerges. So what he does is, he seeks women
that he can easily control. He picks vulnerable women who are alone at night in their most kind of vulnerable state.
Libby was a girl that had been on a great student night out. She was drunk, and he targets her for that very reason.
NARRATOR: At 12:11 AM, Relowicz's car was seen arriving at Oak Road Playing Fields.
At 14 minutes past midnight, a man who lives nearby hears a scream or screams from a woman in the park.
As far as we can tell, that was when Relowicz attacked Libby Squire. This was a very targeted, very efficient attack.
Relowicz was like a missile. He had his sights set, he knew exactly what he wanted to do.
And he went in and did it and left very quickly afterwards. It's now just before 20 past midnight
on the 1st of February, 2019. Relowicz drives home. His sexual obsession is so dramatic
that when he gets home, he has a bath and watches pornography on his phone. And then he gets out of the bath,
puts his clothes back on, and gets back into his car and drives back to the playing fields.
He gets to the playing fields a couple of hours after the screams. NARRATOR: In the early hours of February the 1st,
Relowicz was seen returning to the playing fields at 2:26 AM, just over two hours after the screams were heard
at 11 minutes past midnight. On one of those visits to the playing fields, Pawel Relowicz dumped Libby Squire in the river Hull.
I think Malevich pushed her into the water knowing that that would limit the evidence,
also knowing that he would have a multitude of excuses of trying to get away with murder.
STUART HAMILTON: It may be that she was asphyxiated, either strangled or smothered
before she went into the water. She may have been put into the water while unconscious or semi-conscious
and ultimately drowned. The water is cold, hypothermia can set in. I think what we have to hope is that she died very quickly
and before she went into the water so that she didn't know anything about that. He was simply discarding her and trying
to discard of the evidence. And even more horrifically is that after he does all that,
he drives away, and he's later seen masturbating in the street following murdering her.
And that's just the final act of total disrespect. RICHARD WRIGHT: Libby's friends had sent
her home from the nightclub. They were expecting it to be at home. There was another friend in their student house.
And when they communicated with each other, they discovered she'd never come home.
And so from that moment on, they knew that something had happened. And it was very out of character for Libby
to go missing in this way. And so immediately people were concerned. And then of course, the next morning when she still
hadn't come home, there was great alarm as to what had happened. And the university and the police and the press
launched a significant appeal to try and find her. NARRATOR: At the "Hull Daily Mail,"
Sophie Corcoran was the general news reporter covering the early shift. So the police put in their press release
that Libby Squire was the student who was last seen in the early hours of Friday, the 1st of February.
They said she was 21, and they described her height, how she looked, and what she was wearing when she was last seen.
It also included a number to call with a crime reference number if anyone had any information.
ELIZABETH YARDLEY: This was a huge police investigation. There were many, many officers involved in it at the time.
And this is a case where a young woman has literally just disappeared off the street.
So it's a very, very high priority investigation. KERI NIXON: For the community and students everywhere,
not just in Hull is that this could be anybody's daughter, anybody's friend, anybody's sister.
This is stuff that all of our children go out every weekend, have fun, do what students should do.
And the fact that he took advantage of that is what is so horrific about this case.
NARRATOR: On February the 4th, 2019, Libby's parents made an emotional public appeal.
Libby, my darling pie, we just want to know that you're safe. Please get in touch with us any way you can.
The whole family is missing you, especially me, and your dad, sisters, and your brother.
I miss you so much. It's breaking my heart not knowing where you are. The community reaction was overwhelming.
It has been since she went missing. People really took Libby to heart. She was a visitor to say she was studying here,
and it really meant a lot to People that she was found and she was safe in the city.
Everyone got involved with any searches that were planned. I know the student union and all the students at the university
planned their searches along with homicide police. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: And I think we
also have to reflect on how Relowicz was feeling at this time. I think he felt incredibly powerful when
this investigation was going on because he's caused so many women in this area to be so afraid.
He's not just in control of one woman at this point in time. He's dictating the behavior of a whole town full of women.
NARRATOR: Almost immediately after the public appeal, a potential witness came forward with some vital information.
People started to come forward. And in particular, when a young man who lived in a house
on Oak Road Playing Fields, just one house sitting in the trees on Oak Road Playing Fields called the police
and said that he had heard a woman's desperate screams coming from the direction
of the river on Oak Road. And he knew exactly when he'd heard those screams because he'd checked his phone.
And the time he'd checked his phone corresponded exactly with the CCTV of Pawel Relowicz arriving at Oak Road.
NARRATOR: February the 6th, 2019, after meticulous analysis of the CCTV footage and identification of the driver
of the Vauxhall Astra, Pawel Relowicz was arrested and brought in for questioning
by Humberside police. But of course, in those early days and weeks, her body hadn't been found because Relowicz
had put her in the river. So she was in the water going towards the Humber and then out to sea.
That bought him time because at that stage no one knew was she dead, was she alive,
had she gone missing? NARRATOR: February the 6th, 2019, Hull, East Yorkshire. Pawel Relowicz had been arrested for questioning
by Humberside police in connection with the disappearance of Libby Squire. The police made it aware that his movements on the evening
of January the 31st into the morning of February the 1st had been captured on CCTV.
Now, Relowicz comes up with all sorts of stories about what really happened that night.
First of all, he says, I wasn't there, I didn't do anything. I don't know anything about it.
But then gradually, he amends his version of events to fit in with the CCTV, which says, oh
yes, well, I did offer a lift. But I was only being a good Samaritan. Then he amends it a little further by saying,
oh, well, she took her knickers off and threw them at me. So we got out of the car and had consensual sex
on the playing fields. And then she got up and walked away. He's concealing the truth, clearly.
But nevertheless, he's spinning the line. The last I saw her, she was walking away.
A story incidentally that you hung on to right until his trial, that it had been consensual sex.
And she'd gone off, and he'd driven home. Well, if he'd driven home after consensual sex, why on Earth
did he drive back to the playing fields two hours later? Makes no sense. And made no sense at the time.
When Pawel Relowicz was arrested for the first time and interviewed about Libby, because we knew
she'd been in his car from the CCTV, the police searched the car. And in the boot, they found a pink holdall.
And that again was a crucial piece of evidence because in that pink holdall were
used pairs of knickers, vibrators, condoms, and the like. And it was that find of the holdall that then started
the police down this route of discovery that he was the person responsible for these offenses
of voyeurism and outraging public decency and burglary. NARRATOR: Relowicz was charged as the perpetrator of a series
of sexually-motivated offenses. He continued to deny any involvement in the disappearance of Libby Squire.
He claims that on the night of January the 31st, he was simply out at night looking for easy sex.
The ongoing search for Libby Squire continued. It was very busy. We were trying to get as many stories out of it
as we could just to keep Libby's face out there and keep the public aware that she was still missing
and the police still needed help to find her. NARRATOR: On February the 15th, Detective
Superintendent Martin Smalley from Humberside police issued a statement. While I continue to be hopeful and keep an open mind,
Libby has now been missing for 14 days, and I sadly have to consider she may have come to some harm.
RICHARD WRIGHT: The police carried on building a case against Pawel Relowicz through painstaking police work looking
through thousands of hours of CCTV, identifying his movements. So it really was a case of piecing together
a picture of his behavior and his movements, and demonstrating that he was not as he claimed
in an interview the good Samaritan had given Libby Squire a lift home, that he was a serial sex
offender who had taken her in his car to offend against her sexually. NARRATOR: On March the 20th, seven weeks
after she went missing, Libby Squire's body was found at the mouth of the estuary of the river Humber near Grimsby
docks at a place called Spurn Point. The anguish that families go through when nobody
is ever found is horrific. So they would have dreaded, Libby's family would have dreaded getting that news that her body was found.
But if her body had never been found, they would have lived with that for years to come.
So even though it's absolutely no closure to their pain, at least it's some kind of closure
to them knowing what happened. NARRATOR: Libby was formally identified by her fingerprints.
But pathologists were unable to identify a cause of death. There are several reasons why a cause of death
may not be identifiable. It may be that the manner of death has been such a thing that it can't be physically seen.
It may be due to drugs or chemicals that can't be identified. In Libby's case, the most important factor is
almost certainly decomposition. For her family, the tragic news that she was no longer missing but was dead.
But to the police, sadly, a body is an opportunity to try and find evidence. The tests that were undertaken at the post-mortem
examination revealed Relowicz's semen within Libby's body. NARRATOR: The presence of Relowicz's Seaman
proved that he had been with Libby and that sexual intercourse had taken place. Pathology also confirmed that she was intoxicated when
she was attacked and killed. Her blood alcohol level was 198 milligrams per deciliter.
For the purposes of comparison, that is about 2 and 1/2 times the legal limit for driving a vehicle in this country.
NARRATOR: The results prove that Libby would have been in no fit state to defend
herself against Pawel Relowicz. Something that I think is really important to talk about in this case is that we
refer to her as vulnerable. And she was vulnerable because she was upset and she was drunk, and we read those things.
No. The only reason why she was vulnerable is because there was a sexual predator prowling
the streets looking for her. She was just doing what every student has the right to do,
which is to go out, get drunk, have fun. And the fact that we then label her vulnerable,
she was only vulnerable because of him, not because of herself. NARRATOR: August the 12th, 2019, Sheffield Crown Court, England.
Pawel Relowicz pleaded guilty to four counts of voyeurism, two counts of outraging public decency,
and three counts of burglary. He continued to deny the rape and murder of Libby Squire.
Rolovich was sentenced to 8 and 1/2 years in jail for the sexually-motivated crimes.
Later reduced on appeal to 5 years and 8 months. And after her body had been found,
and after the police investigation was complete, I gave advice that he should be charged
with her rape and murder. NARRATOR: October the 24th, 2019, Pawel Relowicz was formally charged with a rape
and murder of Libby Squire. KERI NIXON: I think the police did an amazing job in the investigation because initially,
they didn't have a body. When they did have a body, she'd been in the water for almost seven weeks.
So most of the evidence had gone. They didn't have a cause of death, but by carefully analyzing all the CCTV,
it's almost like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, making sure that they put that timeline.
It made it that when finally the trial took place, you could see quite clearly that it was absolutely
no possible way that that man wasn't responsible for the murder of Libby. NARRATOR: Relowicz was already incarcerated
and serving his sentence for burglary and voyeurism. Because of the coronavirus pandemic,
the trial for the rape and murder of Libby Squire was considerably delayed and held
under difficult circumstances. January the 12th, 2021, the trial eventually began at Sheffield Crown Court.
Sophie Corcoran was now the court reporter for the "Hull Daily Mail" and the only journalist
in the press pool allowed to attend the trial. And it was really strange to be the only member of the press
there. It was quieter. It was usually when I cover cases it is just me on my own
in court but not for a trial of this size. It was very strange. But we could see that everyone was
on the video link on the TV. So it was still gaining the attention it would have got,
it's just everyone was at home. RICHARD WRIGHT: The defense sought to exploit the very narrow time period
in which he had to commit the rape and murder, 7 minutes and 33 seconds. We knew that definitively from his car arriving
at Oak Road with Libby alive and to the car leaving with just him in it. 7 minutes and 33 seconds in which to get her out
of the car, in which to rape her, in which to cover about 530 meters across the playing
fields to the river to kill her and to get back to his car. So the window was tight, but he could do it.
He was a fit young man. She was incapable of resisting him. And his heightened sexual activity
was such as he accepted that he would ejaculate very, very quickly because he was
so sexually-driven at the time. What he missed of course, was the fact that later on,
two hours later, he went back to Oak road playing fields that night. And he went back there for over 4 and 1/2 minutes.
And so we didn't have to prove that he'd done all of those things during the first visit.
There was ample opportunity for him to have gone back and to have put her body in the river later.
NARRATOR: After a 3-week trial, the jury retired for five days to consider their verdict.
On February the 11th, 2021, Pawel Relowicz was found guilty of the rape and murder
of 21-year-old Libby Squire. There was no expression on his face at all. He would often look at Libby's mom and dad
from the dock and kind of stare at them. He did this when he was sentenced and when he was found guilty as well.
But in terms of remorse and emotion for Libby and the other women who we had praise on,
there was nothing there. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: Relowicz was charged with Libby's rape
and murder, and he was sentenced to 27 years minimum in prison. So this is a very lengthy prison sentence.
We very rarely see prison sentences of this length handed out for murder in this country.
I have no doubt that if Libby's body hasn't been found, if he hadn't been apprehended and convicted
of raping and murdering her, he'd have gone on to rape and potentially kill again because he could
not control his sexual urges. And he was willing to offend in a terrible way to satisfy them.
NARRATOR: Pawel Relowicz believed he had a right to prey on women. They were merely objects to fulfill his perverted desires.
He will spend most of his life in prison, and Libby's family will spend their lives
wondering what future their brilliant daughter would have had if her life had not been so brutally ended
by Pawel Relowicz, one of the world's most evil killers.

The story of 27-year-old Pawel Relowicz, who raped and killed 21-year-old Hull student Libby Squire in a case that made headlines around the UK.

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Brief Summary

Libby Squire was murdered by Pawel Relowicz after a night out, highlighting the dangers of sexual predators.

Key points

The Night Out. 21-year-old Libby Squire was on a night out with friends when tragedy struck.
The Abduction. In less than 15 minutes, Libby was abducted by Relowicz after accepting a lift.
Pawel Relowicz's Double Life. By day, he was a family man; by night, a predator stalking the streets.
The Aftermath. After committing the crime, Relowicz was seen engaging in shocking behavior.
Libby's Parents' Heartbreaking Appeal. On February 4, 2019, Libby's parents made a public appeal for her safe return.
Community's Emotional Response. The community's overwhelming reaction to Libby's disappearance showed how much she was loved.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

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