LIBBY ACCUSED: I HAD SEX WITH HER
Alleged murderer tells court student consented and that he left her in city unharmed
A BUTCHER told a jury he drove around looking for a woman to have “easy sex with” on the night Libby Squire vanished, but denied raping or murdering her.
Married dad Pawel Relowicz, 26, admitted having sex with Libby, who he described as “beautiful”, in a consensual encounter after he offered to drive the student home.
Tipsy Libby, 21, was turned away from a club in Hull, East Yorks, on January 31, 2019. Her body was recovered from the Humber Estuary weeks later.
The prosecution claim Relowicz had been “prowling” the city when he crossed paths with Libby that night.
They say he raped and murdered her, dumping her in a frozen river to “silence her screams”.
But the defence yesterday suggested a “disorientated” Libby could have “fallen in the river” .
Talking about his movements on the night Libby vanished, Relowicz said: “I was looking for [a] woman for easy sex. I was... looking through the window and masturbating.”
He said he saw Libby sitting on the ground “crying and she was shouting”. He said he was curious.
Relowicz told the jury: “She said ‘Hey, man’ and she said she needed some help, she wanted to go to her mum’s.” The dad-of-two insisted she had accepted a lift and that he had not forced Libby in his car. But he
ACCUSED Dad Pawel Relowicz added that he pulled over in Oak Road because Libby started making sounds like “she wanted to vomit”. He told the court yesterday: “Once I stopped the car, she undid her seatbelt and ran off from the car.” But he said she collapsed and after he went to help her she asked him to hug her. He claims they had sex on grass beside the road near his car. After that, Relowicz claimed, Libby asked him to kiss her. He said: “I didn’t want to kiss her because she had some sort of saliva. “I wanted to turn away from her and she scratched me on my face. I started the engine and I just drove away.” Hours later, he went back to Oak Road to look for her because he was “worried about her”. The jury has heard Relowicz admitted nine sexually motivated offences, such as voyeurism, from July 2017 to late January 2019. But Oliver Saxby QC pointed out that none of his client’s crimes were for violence against women. Mr Saxby said: “He has violated homes... the intimate possessions of student girls... and he has expressed his enjoyment at all of this by masturbating at the time and elsewhere.” He acknowledged that Relowicz’s previous deeds were “disgusting” but that his client feared admitting those offences would “count against him”. The trial continues.