Webcam sex girl ‘shot by client af ter she refused £50,000 to marry him’
A WEALTHY businessman shot a sex worker with whom he fell in love after offering her £50,000 ‘to give up her adult webcam work’ and marry him, a court was told yesterday.
Jonathan Kovacik, 58, lavished gifts on 21-year-old Rosalynde Pitcher, including a car and £6,000 towards a breast enlargement operation.
Miss Pitche would send him t ext messages, saying she thought he should ‘get her a boob job’ because they were ‘too small and she didn’t like them’.
She described their relationship as ‘open’ and ‘friends with benefits’, but broke it off after receiving the cash for the cosmetic surgery. An angry Kovacik went to Miss Pitcher’s flat in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight when he started to fear that she was ‘stringing him along’ for his money, Portsmouth Crown Court heard.
Armed with a Walther CP88 competition air pistol, he shot a pellet into her temple and struck her five times with the weapon as she knelt screaming on the floor.
Richard Onslow, defending Kovacik, asked Miss Pitcher: ‘He offered you £50,000 to give up drugs, alcohol and the work and if you did in 12 months he would write you a cheque?’
She replied: ‘No, he was offer- ing £50,000 to have a baby with me.’ She added that i f she became pregnant it would have ‘stopped me having a breast enlargement operation’.
During their three-month relationship, Miss Pitcher worked under different names for the website adultwork.com, interacting with customers via a webcam while ‘not wearing many clothes’. She also met some clients on occasions where they would ‘go out for drinks and stuff ’.
Despite asking Miss Pitcher to marry him, Kovacik would have to make appointments to see her. She told the court that she let him into her flat on December 21 last year after he knocked on the door claiming that he had only ‘a few months to live’.
She said: ‘I walked to the lounge and he was behind me when I turned around and he had a gun pointing at me.
‘He was really quiet and wasn’t saying much. He started walking towards me holding the gun at my head. I dropped to my knees and he put the gun directly to my head. I was screaming, I was just screaming “help”. He just looked really angry and I had never seen that face on him before. I was expecting to be dead.’
Miss Pitcher escaped and alerted the police.
Kovacik, a former parish councillor, who has a property portfolio and a garage business, was arrested after a stand- off with police in Cowes. ‘There’s no fool like an old fool,’ he told officers.
In interviews, he remembered
‘He held the gun
at my head’
taking a diving knife and an air gun to Miss Pitcher’s home because he feared that her father, Lee Pitcher, with whom he had had disagreements, would be violent towards him.
Kovacik, who also l i ves in Shanklin, claims he was mentally unwell at the time of the attack and suffering from temporary insanity. He denies four charges, including wounding with intent, possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and having an article with a blade or point.
The trial continues.