Jury shown last moments of victim

CCTV footage of her in defendant’s car

COURTS: CCTV footage showing the moment Hull University student Libby Squire gets into a car owned by the man accused of her rape and murder was played in court yesterday.

The car was driven to playing fields and she was never seen alive again. Pawel Relowicz, formerly of Raglan Street, Hull, is accused of her rape and murder.

CCTV FOOTAGE showing the moment Hull University student Libby Squire gets into a car owned by the man accused of her rape and murder was played in court yesterday.

The car was driven to playing fields and police confirmed she was never seen alive again.

Miss Squire, a philosophy student, vanished in the early hours of February 1, 2019, after enjoying a night out with friends in Hull. Her body was found in the Humber six weeks later.

Pawel Relowicz, formerly of Raglan Street, Hull, is on trial accused of her rape and murder.

CCTV footage shown by the prosecution to the jury on Tuesday showed the moment Miss Squire got into the front passenger side of Relowicz’s silver Vauxhall Astra car, parked in Haworth Street, Hull, shortly after midnight on February 1.

He had “intercepted” her as she stumbled along Beverley Road.

The car is then seen to leave Haworth Street and travel to the Oak Road playing fields where it arrives at 12.11am. It is here, the prosecution allege, that Relowicz, 26, raped and murdered Miss Squire, before dumping her body in the River Hull.

The silver Astra is then picked up on CCTV heading back from the playing fields, returning to Raglan Street where Relowicz lived with his wife and two children, at 12.22am.

Two hours after Relowicz left the playing fields, Detective Constable James Grandidge, of Humberside Police, showed how the defendant was seen again on CCTV walking across Raglan Street before his Astra car is seen travelling back to Oak Road playing fields for a third and final time that night.

Det Con Grandidge said: “Libby Squire is not seen on CCTV again after arriving at Oak Road playing fields.”

The jury were also shown CCTV footage of Relowicz allegedly performing a sex act in Newland Avenue, close to his home, after his third visit to the playing fields, in the early hours of February 1.

Later that day, he is seen visiting the St Stephen’s shopping centre in Hull with a friend. He is caught on camera purchasing football boots and a goalkeeper shirt, which he bought for a fivea-side match he played later that night.

The court heard how Relowicz was first arrested by police at his home address on February 6, 2019, telling officers “I’m scared” has he was put in the back of the police vehicle.

A transcript of his interview at the police station was also read out in court.

When asked if Miss Squire was alive, Relowicz responded: “I don’t know, how am I supposed to know. I didn’t abduct her.”

He told police he had parked his car in Haworth Street as he planned to go for a run and was doing a warm up.

He said he came across Miss Squire who was “crying and wanted her mother” and offered her a lift home because he felt sorry for her.

Relowicz denies rape and murder. The trial continues.

Libby is not seen on CCTV again after arriving at the playing fields. Detective Constable James Grandidge, of Humberside Police.