‘Mother in torment killed her baby son’
COURT: A woman stabbed her 23-month-old son to death after a mental breakdown triggered by her bullying pilot boyfriend.
Magda Lesicka, 33, was subjected to relentless psychological torment by Ryanair flight captain Peter Chilvers and felt trapped in the toxic relationship, a court heard.
A WOMAN stabbed her 23-month-old son to death after a mental breakdown triggered by her bullying pilot boyfriend.
Magda Lesicka, 33, was subjected to relentless psychological torment by Ryanair flight captain Peter Chilvers and felt trapped in the toxic relationship, a court heard.
Lesicka, who met Chilvers while also working for the airline, inflicted a sustained attack on their son, James, at her home in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, in August 2017 then tried to kill herself.
The Polish national was jailed for 15 years last year after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.
She was sentenced on the basis her mental illness emerged suddenly and she had no memory of committing the offence.
Chilvers, 33, from Northwich, Cheshire, denied any wrongdoing and subsequently went on trial at Manchester Crown Court where a jury convicted him last month of controlling or coercive behaviour.
Reporting restrictions were lifted on the case yesterday as he was jailed for 18 months.
He had repeatedly threatened to kill Lesicka if she took their son from his care and demanded they continue to live together at a new home he bought in the Cheshire village of Wincham, jurors were told.
The pilot warned her in a “visceral” phone call – played in court
– that she did not have the financial resources to win a custody battle and shouted he wanted James to have brothers and sisters, not a half-brother and sister with a “moron that you find”.
The couple had been in a relationship since 2010 but Chilvers cheated on Lesicka from 2014 with another Ryanair cabin crew member, Lisa Spencer, who is now his partner and mother to his two young daughters.
The Crown accepted Lesicka’s defence that she killed James following a breakdown induced by the “deliberate, relentless and ultimately overwhelming psychological torment” by Chilvers.