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NARRATOR: January
the 31st, 2019, Hull, East Yorkshire, England. 21-year-old student Libby
Squire was on a night out
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with her fellow students
from Hull University. The group ended up at a
nightclub in the city.
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But unfortunately,
having drunk too much, Libby was refused entry. He was looking for
somebody exactly like Libby.
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NARRATOR: By day,
Pawel Relowicz was a normal ordinary family man. ELIZABETH YARDLEY:
Because abusers
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don't come with a big flashing
warning sign on their heads. They look like
the man next door.
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NARRATOR: By night, he
prowled the streets of Hull indulging his insatiable
sexual appetite.
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It wasn't just about
watching anymore. It was about confronting
them and terrifying them.
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His deviant desires
had escalated to a point that he needed to go further. NARRATOR: Cold and alone, Libby
Squire was in the wrong place
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at the wrong time. GEOFFREY WANSEL: Unfortunately,
by a malignant twist of fate,
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one of the people who
saw Libby Squire weaving slightly along the road
after leaving the taxi
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was Pawel Relowicz. NARRATOR: For Pawel Relowicz,
women only existed to fulfill his extreme sexual needs.
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He didn't care who
Libby Squire was. And once he was
finished with her, he didn't care what happened to
her as long as she was silenced
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and couldn't reveal Pawel
Relowicz as one of the world's most evil killers. [music playing]
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January the 31st,
2019, Pawel Relowicz was doing what he did
most nights, prowling
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the streets of Hull in
East Yorkshire, England looking for an easy target. Ordinary family
life, ordinary job,
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an unexceptional human being,
a bit of a nobody really. But you would never have
imagined that he was
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or what lay behind that was this
sexual predator who was going out and committing
offense after offense
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in a sexually-motivated way. NARRATOR: At 8
minutes past midnight, 21-year-old student
Libby Squire accepted
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a lift from Pawel Relowicz. He satisfied his own
deviant sexual impulses by selecting somebody
that was completely
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innocent on a night out for
his own selfish desires. NARRATOR: The entire evening
was caught on camera.
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The only person who could
have killed Libby Squire was Pawel Relowicz. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: We're like
watching murder in slow motion
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here. We're watching an offender
escalate in their behavior, and I really wish that something
would have happened here
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to put the brakes on him
then, and perhaps he wouldn't have gone on to kill Libby.
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NARRATOR: In less
than 15 minutes, Relowicz had abducted
Libby Squire, driven her to the
playing fields,
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and found a way to
dispose of her body. No remorse, no regret,
throw her in the river.
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Was she clothed, fully
clothed, not clothed? We have no way of knowing. But that single act,
he's already raped her.
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He's probably
already killed her, and then he throws
her into the river. Now that is an act of
most grotesque wickedness.
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NARRATOR: This killer's story
begins on June the 25th, 1994. Pawel Relowicz was born and
raised in the small town
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of Warszewice in Poland. The town had a
population of around 650, and is just over 74 miles West
of Warsaw, the capital city.
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He was the second
eldest of eight children. His father worked away
a lot, and so his mother
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was the patriarch, so
to speak, of the family. He was a strange boy by all
accounts, but unremarkable.
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The thing that was
remarkable about him was, as soon as he
hit adolescence, he became sexually obsessed.
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It would be fair to say I think
that he was a sexual deviant from a very early age.
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His first girlfriend,
it was always said, dumped him because of his
fascination with pornography.
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And that was at the age of 14. In Poland,
Relowicz was addicted to hardcore pornography.
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Now, an addiction to
hardcore pornography is not going to create
a sexual predator.
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However, we know that
hardcore pornography can desensitize people who watch
it, who are addicted to it.
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But also it means that
they objectify women. NARRATOR: Relowicz
just graduated from catering college
where he learned how
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to become a skilled butcher. Living in Poland
with his mother wasn't necessarily
Relowicz's perfect existence.
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I think the only real industry
in the tiny village he was born was a beet factory,
a sugar beet factory.
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And he clearly didn't
want to stay there. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: But this
is in an era of the internet
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so he will be aware
that actually there is a wider world out there. There are other
things to experience.
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NARRATOR: Relowicz's
elder sister had already left home and moved to the UK. She was living in
the city of Hull
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in the northeast of England. Now why she chose
Hull I think partly it must be because there's
a Polish community there.
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But anyway, she got
a job and liked it. And so in 2012 at the age of 18,
Relowicz leaves Poland and goes
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to Hull to join his sister. He gets a job as a
butcher in a factory in North Malton in Yorkshire.
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Not that far away to drive. And as far as anyone
knows, he's a really ordinary, rather
open-faced, affable enough,
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cheerful, likeable. I think some members
of the Polish community described him as always smiling.
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NARRATOR: In 2014 on
a trip home to Poland, Relowicz met a young
Polish woman who returned
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to live in Hull with him. Two years later
in July 2016, they welcomed their first child,
a son, into the world.
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He settles down very
quickly, almost immediately on arrival in the UK. And this I think is
a bit of a veneer,
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it's a bit of a performance. When you look at him, you see
the family man, he's a father.
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And he comes across as
quite approachable and nice and a regular guy, so he's got
this whole set up going on.
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But that really is a bit of
a screen behind which there's a lot of darkness going on.
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Relowicz develops what
I would like to call a habit of night stalking. Family are back home,
and he goes out.
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And he proceeds to
prowl the streets. Now, he was very limited in
the area in which he prowled.
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He was really a small,
probably a mile square. Some of the victims were less
than four or five minutes' walk
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from his own home. NARRATOR: July the 23rd, 2017. Relowicz stopped at a
ground floor apartment
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with a large Bay window
facing the pavement. The young woman is in
bed with her boyfriend,
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and they're making love. And suddenly, she notices that
it's rather lighter than it was
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before because Relowicz
is outside the window, but he's pushed his head
through the curtains
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that had been drawn so
that you can watch them. NARRATOR: It took a
moment for the woman
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to comprehend what
she was seeing. It's one of the
classics of any voyeur. They need something in front of
them to get them truly excited.
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He falls into that category
of a power-driven offender. He would watch
people, and then he
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would go back and
masturbate at the scene and leave evidence of that. Something we know about
sexually-motivated offenders
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who fall into the
power topology is that they get
enjoyment and a thrill from seeing the distress
in their victims.
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NARRATOR: The boyfriend
jumped out of the bed, and Relowicz ran away. At around 3:45 in the morning,
the couple's flatmate came home
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and found a used condom
and a pair of knickers on their front door handle. So that habit, it didn't
just bring out of the air.
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It didn't just, oh, I
think I'll be a voyeur. He must have grown
into it, but we
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don't know exactly how because
we don't have the evidence. NARRATOR: The following
afternoon when the flatmates
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spoke, the victim realized
that a set of house keys was also missing. The police came and lifted
a set of fingerprints
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from the window. but found
no match in their database. On July the 30th, barely a
week after the first incident,
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a woman lying in bed woke up to
find Relowicz inside her home staring through the glass
panels of her bedroom door.
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Her boyfriend came home and
found the front door open and money missing. Placed next to a child's
toy was an unwrapped condom
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and dirty underwear taken
from the washing basket in the kitchen. There was no match for
either fingerprints
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or DNA found at the scene. But then within
his offending, he's seeking dominance and control.
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He goes back after he's
watching people through windows for example to leave his DNA,
to leave what he's called
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his calling card of condoms
with his semen in to strike fear into those women. NARRATOR: December the 8th,
2017, a female neighbor
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of Rolovich returned
home and found the top window of a ground
floor room hanging open.
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She rightly suspected
there'd been a burglary. But the only things missing were
three sex toys taken from a box
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in the bottom of her wardrobe. A fingerprint was found on
the inside of the window,
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but no match was found. But what's significant is
that the targets of his stealing
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are underwear,
knickers particularly. There's some money, but that's
not what drives Relowicz on.
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What drives Relowicz
on is the sex. That's the thread, the theme,
the motive behind everything
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that he does. And he does it repeatedly
and I would say relentlessly. NARRATOR: Relowicz's behavior
would escalate dangerously.
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Just watching was
no longer enough. February the 16th, 2018,
Hull, East Yorkshire.
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A woman who just got out
of the shower and was in her bedroom
wearing only a towel.
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She changed into
her night clothes and was climbing into bed
when she saw Relowicz's
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inches from her window. Keeping calm, she hid
under the bed clothes and texted her housemates
who were upstairs.
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The housemates ran outside
and shouted at Relowicz, who fled the scene. She has the
foresight to actually
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take a photograph of him. But all he really got
is a man in a hoodie. It's sexual intimidation.
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I'm in control of
this and you're not. It is in a sense
a prelude to rape. NARRATOR: In June that year,
24-year-old Pawel Relowicz
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and his girlfriend got married,
and their second son was born four months later in October.
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Relowicz continued
living a double life of being a normal,
affable family man by day
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and asexual predator by night. Relowicz was a chameleon. And we often find this with
abusers, with sexual predators.
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They present themselves as
nice guys, as regular people, because abusers don't
come with a big flashing
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warning sign on their heads. They look like
the man next door. And if they were
abusive all of the time,
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they wouldn't be able to get
away with doing the things that they do. NARRATOR: December, 2018.
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To explain his
nocturnal behavior, Relowicz would tell his
wife that he was going
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out jogging late at night. ELIZABETH YARDLEY:
This tells me that he wants to keep his wife happy.
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He's not going to be completely
honest with her about what he's doing, because she
serves a purpose for him.
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She puts a roof over his
head and meals on the table and enables him this
veneer of family life.
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But at the same time, he
wants the best of both worlds. He wants to be able to go
out and prey on young women,
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because he sees
women as objects. They are useful to him. And his wife is useful to him.
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And the women that he
preys on are useful to him for different reasons. So what is underlying
all of this is misogyny.
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He feels entitled to treat
women exactly as he pleases. NARRATOR: By January
2019, Relowicz
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had progressed from
voyeurism and burglary to carrying out acts
of public indecency.
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He is seen
masturbating in front of two women in the street. And I find this interesting
because what we know
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from indecent
exposers and voyeurism is that when it becomes
more severe in the form
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of masturbating in
public, following women, that's a sign that it's
becoming more serious.
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And his risk was going
up at this point. To be fair to the police,
they had bits of pieces of DNA
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and indeed bits and
pieces of fingerprints. But they had no person of
interest, no prime suspect.
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They didn't have someone people
could point the finger at. NARRATOR: Like many
predators, Relowicz
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had a specific
geographical footprint where he committed his crimes. So we know that he
was stalking that area.
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He'd offending in that area, and
he was deliberately targeting that area because he knew that
students would be out enjoying
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themselves, doing
absolutely what students should be able to do in safety. When we look at the kind of
things he's been engaging in,
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voyeurism, masturbating in the
street, this sexual predation, it can escalate. These behaviors can
escalate into murder,
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into serious physical harm. So this is something
that we need to be acutely aware
of when we have
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an individual who
is caught engaging in this kind of behavior. We have to see this as
a potential trajectory
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that they can take and take
this very seriously indeed. His deviant desires
had escalated to a point
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that he needed to go further. He was planning to do
what he did that night because his desires
had escalated so
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much in his offending, in his
sexual offending that it was no longer satisfied by that.
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NARRATOR: January
the 31st, 2019. 21-year-old Libby
Squire was a philosophy student at Hull University.
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She was from High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire, England, the eldest of four siblings.
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Libby had chosen hull for
her undergraduate degree, specifically for the reputation
of the philosophy faculty.
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Despite the fact the
University was over 200 miles from her home, Libby was
very close to her family
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and spoke or texted
with her mom every day. Libby Squire was a very
smart, very intelligent,
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very articulate young
woman who was studying philosophy at Hull University. So to be able to even get onto
a course to study philosophy,
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you have to be
incredibly talented and academically achieve
very high grades. So she was somebody who
had significant potential
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for her future. On the night of
January the 31st, 2019, Libby Squire is out for a party.
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She goes to another
student's house, all in the same area ironically,
that rhetoric has been
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stalking for several years. And they clearly have
a very good time. About 11:00, a group
of them leave the house
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and go to a nightclub in
Hull called The Welly. NARRATOR: It was a freezing
night with snow on the ground.
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The group of students arrived
at the nightclub at 11:20. Unfortunately,
Libby has had perhaps
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rather too much to drink. And the doorman at The Welly
nightclub say, I'm sorry,
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we're not letting you in. You've already had too much. NARRATOR: To make sure
she got home safely,
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Libby's friends put her in
a taxi outside the nightclub at 11:30. We think that she lost
her keys because she
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didn't go into her house. So there, suddenly,
she becomes even more vulnerable because she's
wandering the streets
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upset in a drunk state. NARRATOR: Libby's movements
were captured on CCTV cameras
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from 11:40 to 11:49. Near the junction of Haworth
Street and Beverley Road, two men were seen
trying to help her,
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as do several other people. Libby refuses their
help and wanders off. At 11:55, Pawel Relowicz is
picked up on camera in Haworth
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Street exiting his parked car. He appears to have
seen Libby Squire then disappears from view.
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At midnight, he's
seen on foot tracking Libby Squire from the
opposite side of the street.
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GEOFFREY WANSEL: I
think at that point, Libby was probably tired,
very unsteady on her feet
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and unfortunately, accepted
the lift with Relowicz. I've worked on many rape cases
and many sexual assault cases
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where a woman has been
drunk, and the perpetrator has approached them
in order to help them.
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That is often a very clever way
that a perpetrator approaches a woman who is in
need to offer them
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help and assistance
with the intention that they're going to harm them. NARRATOR: February
the 1st, 2019.
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At 12:08 AM, Relowicz's
silver Vauxhall Astra drove off with Libby in the car. He was not being
a good Samaritan.
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Relowicz was
opportunistically taking advantage of a young woman who
was unable to defend herself.
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For me, what makes this
case horrific to look at, one of the most horrific that
I've looked at in a long time
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is the number of what ifs. On that night, there's
so many points that you just want to cry for her.
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Not being allowed into
the nightclub because she was too drunk. Her friends bringing
her into a taxi.
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And they thought they were
putting her into a cab and she was going home safely.
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It's one of those cases
that at each point, you just want to scream, no. Because then the next
person that comes along
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is the man that takes her life. NARRATOR: February
the 1st, 2019, Hull, East Yorkshire, England.
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Just past midnight, 21-year-old
Libby Squire had accepted a lift from Pawel Relowicz.
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This would have been a
terrifying experience for Libby because in the beginning she
perhaps thinks that here's
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a man who's helping me out, and
very quickly realizes that's not what's happening at all.
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This is somebody who
intends me serious harm. So Relowicz we know is a
wolf in sheep's clothing.
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He's very good at
that charm syndrome. He's very good at
disarming people and making himself appear
friendly and approachable
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and caring. But then he switches
very, very quickly and the real him emerges. So what he does
is, he seeks women
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that he can easily control. He picks vulnerable
women who are alone at night in their most
kind of vulnerable state.
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Libby was a girl that had been
on a great student night out. She was drunk, and he targets
her for that very reason.
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NARRATOR: At 12:11
AM, Relowicz's car was seen arriving at
Oak Road Playing Fields.
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At 14 minutes past
midnight, a man who lives nearby hears a scream or screams
from a woman in the park.
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As far as we can
tell, that was when Relowicz attacked Libby Squire. This was a very targeted,
very efficient attack.
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Relowicz was like a missile. He had his sights set, he knew
exactly what he wanted to do.
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And he went in and did it and
left very quickly afterwards. It's now just before
20 past midnight
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on the 1st of February, 2019. Relowicz drives home. His sexual obsession
is so dramatic
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that when he gets home,
he has a bath and watches pornography on his phone. And then he gets
out of the bath,
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puts his clothes
back on, and gets back into his car and drives
back to the playing fields.
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He gets to the playing
fields a couple of hours after the screams. NARRATOR: In the early
hours of February the 1st,
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Relowicz was seen returning to
the playing fields at 2:26 AM, just over two hours after
the screams were heard
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at 11 minutes past midnight. On one of those visits
to the playing fields, Pawel Relowicz dumped Libby
Squire in the river Hull.
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I think Malevich
pushed her into the water knowing that that would
limit the evidence,
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also knowing that he would
have a multitude of excuses of trying to get
away with murder.
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STUART HAMILTON:
It may be that she was asphyxiated, either
strangled or smothered
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before she went into the water. She may have been
put into the water while unconscious
or semi-conscious
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and ultimately drowned. The water is cold,
hypothermia can set in. I think what we have to hope
is that she died very quickly
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and before she
went into the water so that she didn't know
anything about that. He was simply
discarding her and trying
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to discard of the evidence. And even more horrifically is
that after he does all that,
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he drives away, and he's later
seen masturbating in the street following murdering her.
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And that's just the final
act of total disrespect. RICHARD WRIGHT: Libby's
friends had sent
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her home from the nightclub. They were expecting
it to be at home. There was another friend
in their student house.
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And when they communicated
with each other, they discovered she'd
never come home.
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And so from that
moment on, they knew that something had happened. And it was very out
of character for Libby
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to go missing in this way. And so immediately
people were concerned. And then of course, the
next morning when she still
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hadn't come home,
there was great alarm as to what had happened. And the university and
the police and the press
00:27:11
launched a significant
appeal to try and find her. NARRATOR: At the
"Hull Daily Mail,"
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Sophie Corcoran was the
general news reporter covering the early shift. So the police put
in their press release
00:27:24
that Libby Squire
was the student who was last seen in the early hours
of Friday, the 1st of February.
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They said she was 21, and
they described her height, how she looked, and what she was
wearing when she was last seen.
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It also included
a number to call with a crime reference number
if anyone had any information.
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ELIZABETH YARDLEY: This was
a huge police investigation. There were many, many officers
involved in it at the time.
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And this is a case where a
young woman has literally just disappeared off the street.
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So it's a very, very high
priority investigation. KERI NIXON: For the community
and students everywhere,
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not just in Hull
is that this could be anybody's daughter, anybody's
friend, anybody's sister.
00:28:12
This is stuff that all of our
children go out every weekend, have fun, do what
students should do.
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And the fact that he
took advantage of that is what is so horrific
about this case.
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NARRATOR: On February the
4th, 2019, Libby's parents made an emotional public appeal.
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Libby, my darling pie, we just
want to know that you're safe. Please get in touch
with us any way you can.
00:28:50
The whole family is missing you,
especially me, and your dad, sisters, and your brother.
00:28:55
I miss you so much. It's breaking my heart
not knowing where you are. The community reaction
was overwhelming.
00:29:09
It has been since
she went missing. People really took
Libby to heart. She was a visitor to say
she was studying here,
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and it really meant a lot
to People that she was found and she was safe in the city.
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Everyone got involved with any
searches that were planned. I know the student union and all
the students at the university
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planned their searches
along with homicide police. ELIZABETH YARDLEY:
And I think we
00:29:31
also have to reflect
on how Relowicz was feeling at this time. I think he felt
incredibly powerful when
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this investigation was
going on because he's caused so many women in
this area to be so afraid.
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He's not just in control of one
woman at this point in time. He's dictating the behavior
of a whole town full of women.
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NARRATOR: Almost immediately
after the public appeal, a potential witness came forward
with some vital information.
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People started
to come forward. And in particular, when a
young man who lived in a house
00:30:04
on Oak Road Playing Fields,
just one house sitting in the trees on Oak Road
Playing Fields called the police
00:30:11
and said that he had
heard a woman's desperate screams coming
from the direction
00:30:16
of the river on Oak Road. And he knew exactly when
he'd heard those screams because he'd checked his phone.
00:30:24
And the time he'd
checked his phone corresponded exactly
with the CCTV of Pawel Relowicz arriving at Oak Road.
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NARRATOR: February the 6th,
2019, after meticulous analysis of the CCTV footage and
identification of the driver
00:30:44
of the Vauxhall
Astra, Pawel Relowicz was arrested and brought
in for questioning
00:30:49
by Humberside police. But of course, in those
early days and weeks, her body hadn't been
found because Relowicz
00:30:57
had put her in the river. So she was in the water
going towards the Humber and then out to sea.
00:31:04
That bought him time
because at that stage no one knew was she
dead, was she alive,
00:31:08
had she gone missing? NARRATOR: February the 6th,
2019, Hull, East Yorkshire. Pawel Relowicz had been
arrested for questioning
00:31:20
by Humberside
police in connection with the disappearance
of Libby Squire. The police made it aware that
his movements on the evening
00:31:29
of January the 31st into the
morning of February the 1st had been captured on CCTV.
00:31:37
Now, Relowicz comes up with
all sorts of stories about what really happened that night.
00:31:46
First of all, he says, I wasn't
there, I didn't do anything. I don't know anything about it.
00:31:52
But then gradually, he
amends his version of events to fit in with the
CCTV, which says, oh
00:31:59
yes, well, I did offer a lift. But I was only being
a good Samaritan. Then he amends it a
little further by saying,
00:32:06
oh, well, she took her knickers
off and threw them at me. So we got out of the car
and had consensual sex
00:32:13
on the playing fields. And then she got
up and walked away. He's concealing
the truth, clearly.
00:32:21
But nevertheless, he's
spinning the line. The last I saw her,
she was walking away.
00:32:29
A story incidentally
that you hung on to right until
his trial, that it had been consensual sex.
00:32:37
And she'd gone off,
and he'd driven home. Well, if he'd driven home after
consensual sex, why on Earth
00:32:43
did he drive back to the
playing fields two hours later? Makes no sense. And made no sense at the time.
00:32:51
When Pawel Relowicz was
arrested for the first time and interviewed about
Libby, because we knew
00:32:59
she'd been in his
car from the CCTV, the police searched the car. And in the boot, they
found a pink holdall.
00:33:11
And that again was a
crucial piece of evidence because in that
pink holdall were
00:33:17
used pairs of
knickers, vibrators, condoms, and the like. And it was that find of the
holdall that then started
00:33:29
the police down this
route of discovery that he was the person
responsible for these offenses
00:33:35
of voyeurism and outraging
public decency and burglary. NARRATOR: Relowicz was charged
as the perpetrator of a series
00:33:45
of sexually-motivated offenses. He continued to
deny any involvement in the disappearance
of Libby Squire.
00:33:55
He claims that on the
night of January the 31st, he was simply out at night
looking for easy sex.
00:34:03
The ongoing search for
Libby Squire continued. It was very busy. We were trying to get as
many stories out of it
00:34:11
as we could just to keep
Libby's face out there and keep the public aware
that she was still missing
00:34:16
and the police still
needed help to find her. NARRATOR: On February
the 15th, Detective
00:34:21
Superintendent Martin Smalley
from Humberside police issued a statement. While I continue to be
hopeful and keep an open mind,
00:34:32
Libby has now been
missing for 14 days, and I sadly have to consider
she may have come to some harm.
00:34:39
RICHARD WRIGHT:
The police carried on building a case
against Pawel Relowicz through painstaking
police work looking
00:34:47
through thousands
of hours of CCTV, identifying his movements. So it really was a case
of piecing together
00:34:55
a picture of his behavior
and his movements, and demonstrating that
he was not as he claimed
00:35:02
in an interview the good
Samaritan had given Libby Squire a lift home,
that he was a serial sex
00:35:09
offender who had
taken her in his car to offend against her sexually. NARRATOR: On March
the 20th, seven weeks
00:35:18
after she went missing,
Libby Squire's body was found at the mouth of the estuary of
the river Humber near Grimsby
00:35:26
docks at a place
called Spurn Point. The anguish that families
go through when nobody
00:35:35
is ever found is horrific. So they would have
dreaded, Libby's family would have dreaded getting that
news that her body was found.
00:35:46
But if her body had
never been found, they would have lived with
that for years to come.
00:35:52
So even though it's absolutely
no closure to their pain, at least it's some
kind of closure
00:36:00
to them knowing what happened. NARRATOR: Libby was formally
identified by her fingerprints.
00:36:06
But pathologists were unable
to identify a cause of death. There are several reasons
why a cause of death
00:36:14
may not be identifiable. It may be that the
manner of death has been such a thing that
it can't be physically seen.
00:36:24
It may be due to
drugs or chemicals that can't be identified. In Libby's case, the
most important factor is
00:36:31
almost certainly decomposition. For her family, the
tragic news that she was no longer missing but was dead.
00:36:38
But to the police, sadly,
a body is an opportunity to try and find evidence. The tests that were
undertaken at the post-mortem
00:36:48
examination revealed Relowicz's
semen within Libby's body. NARRATOR: The presence
of Relowicz's Seaman
00:36:56
proved that he had
been with Libby and that sexual intercourse
had taken place. Pathology also confirmed
that she was intoxicated when
00:37:05
she was attacked and killed. Her blood alcohol level was
198 milligrams per deciliter.
00:37:13
For the purposes of comparison,
that is about 2 and 1/2 times the legal limit for driving
a vehicle in this country.
00:37:21
NARRATOR: The results
prove that Libby would have been in no
fit state to defend
00:37:25
herself against Pawel Relowicz. Something that I think
is really important to talk about in
this case is that we
00:37:33
refer to her as vulnerable. And she was vulnerable
because she was upset and she was drunk, and
we read those things.
00:37:42
No. The only reason why
she was vulnerable is because there was a
sexual predator prowling
00:37:48
the streets looking for her. She was just doing what every
student has the right to do,
00:37:54
which is to go out,
get drunk, have fun. And the fact that we then
label her vulnerable,
00:38:01
she was only vulnerable because
of him, not because of herself. NARRATOR: August the 12th, 2019,
Sheffield Crown Court, England.
00:38:15
Pawel Relowicz pleaded guilty
to four counts of voyeurism, two counts of outraging
public decency,
00:38:22
and three counts of burglary. He continued to deny the rape
and murder of Libby Squire.
00:38:31
Rolovich was sentenced
to 8 and 1/2 years in jail for the
sexually-motivated crimes.
00:38:37
Later reduced on appeal
to 5 years and 8 months. And after her
body had been found,
00:38:44
and after the police
investigation was complete, I gave advice that
he should be charged
00:38:49
with her rape and murder. NARRATOR: October
the 24th, 2019, Pawel Relowicz was formally
charged with a rape
00:38:59
and murder of Libby Squire. KERI NIXON: I think the
police did an amazing job in the investigation
because initially,
00:39:08
they didn't have a body. When they did have a body,
she'd been in the water for almost seven weeks.
00:39:16
So most of the
evidence had gone. They didn't have
a cause of death, but by carefully
analyzing all the CCTV,
00:39:27
it's almost like
putting a jigsaw puzzle together, making sure
that they put that timeline.
00:39:33
It made it that when finally
the trial took place, you could see quite clearly
that it was absolutely
00:39:43
no possible way
that that man wasn't responsible for the
murder of Libby. NARRATOR: Relowicz was
already incarcerated
00:39:53
and serving his sentence
for burglary and voyeurism. Because of the
coronavirus pandemic,
00:40:01
the trial for the rape
and murder of Libby Squire was considerably
delayed and held
00:40:07
under difficult circumstances. January the 12th,
2021, the trial eventually began at
Sheffield Crown Court.
00:40:17
Sophie Corcoran was now the
court reporter for the "Hull Daily Mail" and
the only journalist
00:40:22
in the press pool allowed
to attend the trial. And it was really strange to
be the only member of the press
00:40:30
there. It was quieter. It was usually when I cover
cases it is just me on my own
00:40:35
in court but not for
a trial of this size. It was very strange. But we could see
that everyone was
00:40:41
on the video link on the TV. So it was still gaining the
attention it would have got,
00:40:45
it's just everyone was at home. RICHARD WRIGHT:
The defense sought to exploit the very
narrow time period
00:40:57
in which he had to commit
the rape and murder, 7 minutes and 33 seconds. We knew that definitively
from his car arriving
00:41:07
at Oak Road with Libby
alive and to the car leaving with just him in it. 7 minutes and 33 seconds
in which to get her out
00:41:15
of the car, in
which to rape her, in which to cover about 530
meters across the playing
00:41:23
fields to the river to kill
her and to get back to his car. So the window was tight,
but he could do it.
00:41:30
He was a fit young man. She was incapable
of resisting him. And his heightened
sexual activity
00:41:39
was such as he accepted
that he would ejaculate very, very quickly
because he was
00:41:45
so sexually-driven at the time. What he missed of course,
was the fact that later on,
00:41:52
two hours later, he went back
to Oak road playing fields that night. And he went back there for
over 4 and 1/2 minutes.
00:42:00
And so we didn't have
to prove that he'd done all of those things
during the first visit.
00:42:04
There was ample opportunity
for him to have gone back and to have put her
body in the river later.
00:42:10
NARRATOR: After a 3-week trial,
the jury retired for five days to consider their verdict.
00:42:17
On February the 11th,
2021, Pawel Relowicz was found guilty of
the rape and murder
00:42:24
of 21-year-old Libby Squire. There was no expression
on his face at all. He would often look
at Libby's mom and dad
00:42:34
from the dock and
kind of stare at them. He did this when
he was sentenced and when he was
found guilty as well.
00:42:42
But in terms of remorse
and emotion for Libby and the other women
who we had praise on,
00:42:47
there was nothing there. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: Relowicz
was charged with Libby's rape
00:42:52
and murder, and he was sentenced
to 27 years minimum in prison. So this is a very
lengthy prison sentence.
00:42:59
We very rarely see prison
sentences of this length handed out for murder in this country.
00:43:06
I have no doubt that if
Libby's body hasn't been found, if he hadn't been
apprehended and convicted
00:43:14
of raping and murdering her,
he'd have gone on to rape and potentially kill
again because he could
00:43:20
not control his sexual urges. And he was willing to offend in
a terrible way to satisfy them.
00:43:29
NARRATOR: Pawel Relowicz
believed he had a right to prey on women. They were merely objects to
fulfill his perverted desires.
00:43:39
He will spend most of
his life in prison, and Libby's family
will spend their lives
00:43:45
wondering what future their
brilliant daughter would have had if her life had not
been so brutally ended
00:43:51
by Pawel Relowicz, one of the
world's most evil killers.