Missing woman’s husband admits wanting to drug her with GHB
THE HUSBAND of a lawyer who has been missing for almost a year has walked free from court after a judge heard how he wanted to drug her with GHB to find out about an affair.
A jury has heard how Majid Mustafa, 48, encouraged a man called Robert Lipinski to obtain the drug, which is usually associated with date-rape, to help him find out about a relationship his wife Renata Antczak was conducting.
Prosecutors at Doncaster Crown Court said he wanted to incapacitate her so he could use her fingerprint to access her mobile phone but he never got hold of any GHB.
The jury was not told during the trial that she was reported missing a year ago in Hull and Humberside Police has investigated her disappearance as “potential murder”.
The last known sighting of the 49-year-old from Hull was when she dropped off her 11-year-old daughter at school on April 25 last year. Officers later conducted searches on grassland on Kingswood, close to Mrs Amtczak’s home.
The jury was discharged after Mustafa changed his plea to guilty and admitted intentionally encouraging an offence. He was then given a conditional discharge for 12 months by Judge Mark Bury. Mustafa had already spent five and a half months in custody on remand last year.
The court heard how he used various surveillance methods to try to find out what was happening with his wife. But he also encouraged Mr Lipinski to get hold of GHB from Poland.
The court heard that Mr Lipinski was already trying to get hold of the drug in order to use it on his own wife.
The judge stressed that Mustafa never obtained the drug.
Sentencing, Judge Bury made it clear the offence he was convicted of had nothing to do with his wife’s disappearance. He said: “You are not charged with, still less convicted, in connection with her disappearance.”
But he also said while many people had partners who were unfaithful, “very few would want to drug them with GHB to try and find out what was going on”.