Murder of Libby Squire

[1] On 6 February, just under a week after Squire disappeared, 24-year-old Pawel Relowicz was arrested on suspicion of her abduction after CCTV showed his silver Vauxhall Astra in the area when she went missing.

[4] On 20 March, approximately seven weeks after Squire disappeared, a woman's body was discovered by fishermen in the Humber Estuary, close to Grimsby docks.

At around 11:20 pm she was refused entry to The Welly,[1] a music venue and nightclub in central Hull,[11] because door staff thought she was too intoxicated.

[4] These charges related to a string of sexually motivated offences committed between June 2017 and December 2018, and were unrelated to Squire.

They included Relowicz masturbating in public, spying on women in their homes and stealing sex toys, underwear and cash during burglaries.

[7] On 31 October, Pawel Relowicz appeared before Kingston upon Hull Crown Court charged with rape and murder.

When he came across Squire, drunk and possibly suffering from hypothermia, he invited or forced her into his car with the intention of committing a sexual offence.

[17] The prosecution claimed he then took Squire to Oak Road playing fields, a nearby open space, where he raped and subsequently murdered her.

He admitted committing one further public sex act that night, but denied he was sexually excited as a result of Squire's murder.

[21] The following day, 12 February, Relowicz was sentenced at the same court to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 27 years for Squire's murder.

[22] In her sentencing remarks, the judge, Mrs Justice Lambert, agreed with the description of Relowicz's crimes as a "perverted campaign of sexually deviant behaviour", and of him as a "very dangerous individual".

At the time of the murder he was employed as a butcher, working for Karro Food Group at a meat processing plant in Malton, North Yorkshire.

[14] In January 2019, less than three weeks before Squire's murder, Relowicz publicly masturbated in front of groups of women on two separate occasions.

[23] Although he left substantial evidence at the scene of many of these offences, Relowicz was not identified because he had no criminal record and so his DNA and fingerprints were not available to police.

[3] At the time of his arrest, Relowicz was found to be in possession of a pink holdall containing sex toys, female underwear and photographs of women, all of which he had stolen in burglaries.