I didn’t kill her, says the dentist husband of missing solicitor
THE husband of a lawyer who vanished from home more than a year ago has denied killing her and said he feared being framed for murder if a body is found.
Police believe mother-oftwo Renata Antczak was murdered and a major inquiry into her disappearance is continuing.
now her dentist husband Majid Mustafa, who was convicted of a plot to drug her in attempts to discover if she was having an affair, has spoken out to defend himself for the first time.
Mr Mustafa, 48, who met his wife in Poland and moved with her to live in Hull with their two daughters seven years ago, was asked if he killed her in an interview with a Polish TV station.
He said: ‘no, of course not. If every man whose wife wants a divorce will kill her the world will probably end.’
Speaking about the police inquiry in which he was arrested as a suspect, he said: ‘They took everything from my house, everything. When I went out of jail I didn’t have even my underwear.’
Last April Mr Mustafa, a Jordanian brought up in Iraq, went on trial at Doncaster Crown Court accused of trying to recruit a friend to get the ‘date rape’ drug GHB to use on his wife. He wanted her thumbprint to unlock her phone to find out if she was having an affair.
The court heard he found out she was cheating by putting spy cameras in her car and using software to monitor her phone. Mr Mustafa initially denied the charge but changed his plea to guilty and was given a 12-month conditional discharge, having spent five months in custody.
Asked in the interview with Polsat news if he was afraid what would happen if his wife’s body was found, he replied: ‘I can’t say I am not. But I am afraid only they will direct everything against me. That they will do everything to make me guilty even without the evidence.’
Miss Antczak, 49, was last seen on April 25 last year when she returned home after taking her daughter Victoria, 12, to school. She left the house at 1pm and has not been seen since. Her
‘Wasn’t a happy experience’
husband claims he found a handwritten note in Polish headed Freedom Ritual.
Miss Antczak wrote: ‘I am free. I am free from everything. I am free from marriage. I am free from all obligation. I am free from everything.’
Mr Mustafa said at the time he feared his wife, who once worked as a lawyer in Poland but recently retrained as a ‘healing’ therapist, was lured into some kind of sect or cult.
The hunt for her took a dramatic twist with her husband’s prosecution for attempting to buy GHB. Despite this, the cou- ple’s oldest daughter Magdalena Zaton, 24, is giving her father her wholehearted support.
She told the Daily Mail: ‘I’m working with the police. I try to help them as best as I can. I am in contact with my dad. I support him 100 per cent all the way.’
Mrs Zaton married Piotrek Zaton several months after her mother’s disappearance but said her wedding day ‘wasn’t a happy experience’.
She added: ‘We had to make some life-changing decisions. I take care of my sister. I hope my dad will come to live with us. I hope my mum will be found, that’s the first thing that comes to my mind.’
Asked whether her father has given her an explanation about what happened to her mother, Mrs Zaton said: ‘I think that’s between me and my dad.’
Humberside Police made a fresh appeal for information on the anniversary of Miss Antczak’s disappearance. Detective Superintendent Tony Cockerill, who is leading the case, said: ‘It’s heartbreaking to think that she’s not been found, that her daughters have unanswered questions, and that she misses birthdays and Christmas, which I don’t believe she would do.’
He said no friends or family had heard from Miss Antczak. A Humberside Police spokesman said yesterday the situation remained unchanged.